Westbrook Pegler

"Another cub in the same pressroom was Webb Miller, who has now been one of the great European correspondents for the last 15 years, Once, when I was working in London, he came over to work in the same shop and we held a reunion in the course of which he admitted that he and another fellow once had committed a holdup in Chicago. He and this friend had been buying beer all night and a stranger had joined them. But the stranger, though he drank his beers, did not buy any. At closing time, the stranger pulled out a wad of money and bought himself one cigar. This annoyed Webb Miller and his friend, so they followed him down Washington Street, shoved him into a doorway and were about to take his money when he pleaded with them not to rob him of the leg of lamb and bag of eggplant which he had been ordered to bring home for Sunday dinner. So Mr. Miller and his partner in crime disregarded his roll of money but took his leg of lamb and his eggplant."

The Westbrook Pegler Collection

1942

40-Hour Week Row Only a Sideshow

To Cover Up for Unions

Knoxville News-Sentinel/April 1, 1942

Supreme Court Mocks Arnold and People in Teamster Case Ruling

Knoxville News-Sentinel/April 2, 1942

Conscription of All Would Throw

Nation Into Hands of Unions

Knoxville News-Sentinel/April 3, 1942

Criticism of Unions Does Not

Put Writer with Roosevelt-Haters

Knoxville News-Sentinel/April 15, 1942

Unions Blame Bosses for Malnutrition

But Fees Are No Help

Knoxville News-Sentinel/April 16, 1942

Unions More Guilty of Libel

Than Those Who Criticize Them

Knoxville News-Sentinel/April 22, 1942

Dream of Post-War Brotherhood is

Just a Political Fancy

Knoxville News-Sentinel/May 2, 1942

White Press Overly Friendly to the Negro

Santa Cruz Sentinel/June 18, 1942

1945

As Pegler Sees It. Communists Go `Big Business’ to Trick U.S.

Chicago Herald-American/March 15, 1945

NY Sneers at Senator Bilbo

Invite Carpetbagger Comparisons

Dixon Telegraph/September 10, 1945

1946

Author of "The Plotters"

Displayed Excessive Timidity

Shreveport Times/November 15, 1946

1948

He Ran Strategy and Pulled Strings;
Is That Proper for a Justice?
Shreveport Times/August 2, 1948

Roosevelt Invoked Very Principles
Which Parties are Now Fighting
Shreveport Times/August 3, 1948

Pegler Gets Copies of Two Other “Examples Of Wallace’s Absurdity”

Roanoke Raids Daily Herald/Sept. 21, 1948

Pegler Says GURU Letters Place Roosevelt In Bad Light for Having Henry Wallace as Vice President
Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald/Sept. 27, 1948

Pegler Endorses Governor Dewey’s Methods of Handling Domestic Communists, But Says It’s Very Old

Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald/Sept. 29, 1948

Pegler Calls Action of New York Officials in Union Strife Sign of European Political Subtlety

Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald/Sept. 30, 1948

Calls Wallace Campaign Very Frightening
Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald/October 1, 1948

1949

Modern Empire Business

Tampa Tribune/February 2, 1949

More on the Fox Empire

Tampa Tribune/February 3, 1949

The Rise of Matty Fox

Tampa Tribune/February 4, 1949

Changes Within the Unions

Tampa Tribune/February 5, 1949

A Suggestion for Dewey

Tampa Tribune/February 21, 1949

The Right Not to Strike

Tampa Tribune/February 23, 1949

Worst Lynching Force

Tampa Tribune/February 24, 1949

Americans Ask for Fascism

Tampa Tribune/February 25, 1949

Calls Dewey a New Dealer

Tampa Tribune/February 26, 1949

Three New Deal Lawyers

Tampa Tribune/February 28, 1949

Says Pegler Violated Copyright

Newark Advocate/July 28, 1949

1953

Sen. McCarran and Rep. Walter Punished For Putting American Interests First

Lebanon (PA) Times/January 23, 1953

1954

Journalism in Haiti
Rome News-Tribune/February 4, 1954

Rayburn Helped Sabotage Expose of Communists
Rome News-Tribune/February 12, 1954

The Details of Guilt Surround the Democrats
Rome News-Tribune/February 15, 1954

Earl Warren's Pension Should Be Investigated
Rome News-Tribune/February 16, 1954

Pre-Trial Examination is Form of "Smearing"
Rome News-Tribune/February 17, 1954

Adventures in Smoking in the Good Old Days
Rome News-Tribune/February 18, 1954

Present-Type Unionism Would Seem Doomed
Rome News-Tribune/March 1, 1954

Newspapers Are at Fault in Evaluating Warren
Rome News-Tribune/March 2, 1954

The Ethical Standards of McCarthy Opponents
Rome News-Tribune/March 3, 1954

Opening Move is Made in Smear-Pegler Movement
Rome News-Tribune/March 4, 1954

Stevens Will Learn the Army's a Mess
Rome News-Tribune/March 5, 1954

Which Captain Delano Was Hanged for Piracy?
Rome News-Tribune/April 9, 1954

1955

Red College Alumnus, Elected Arkansas Governor, Called "Violent Radical"

Shreveport Times/January 4, 1955

Little Worry Over Leftwing Education of Arkansas Governor

Shreveport Times/January 5, 1955

$50,000 Arkansas Gift to Truman in '48

Shreveport Times/January 6, 1955

Back When a Noted Gambler

Led a Police Parade

Shreveport Times/January 8, 1955

Rep. Reece Ties Into New York Times

Shreveport Times/January 10, 1955

Pegler Tells of Those

Who Would Quarantine Pegler

Shreveport Times/January 12, 1955

McCarthyism Needed

Post-Standard (Syracuse)/November 15, 1955

Baker / Bierce / Bly / Crane / Davis / Hemingway / Mencken / London / Roosevelt / Stanley / Steffens / Tarbell / Twain

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1925

Tunney Kayoes Gibbons in Twelfth Round

Bakersfield Californian/June 6, 1925

Phil Goldstein is Real Student

Bakersfield Californian/June 6, 1925

Pugilism Falls Upon Evil Days,

According to Brand New Critic

Salt Lake Tribune/November 5, 1926

1926

Old Timers on Brooklyn Club

Chicago Tribune/March 11, 1926

Harry Persson, Monte Munn
Take Lickings in NY Ring
Chicago Tribune/December 23, 1926

1927

Pegler Sees Yankees Toil

Chicago Tribune/March 16, 1927

1929

Pegler Tells Why Gamblers
Wear Those Gloomy Looks
Chicago Tribune/August 8, 1929

Beat the Races?

Impossible, Says Colonel Bradly

Chicago Tribune/August 9, 1929

Memories of Black Sox Still Haunt Him,
But Gleason Carries On
Chicago Tribune/October 3, 1929

1932

The Called Shot Heard 'Round the World

Chicago Tribune/October 2, 1932

1933

List of Rainy-Day Topics Pegler’s First Concern As He Tackles New Writing Job

Quad City Times/December 11, 1933

Noted Writer Introduces Himself

Quad City Times/December 11, 1933

Repeal Robs Pegler of Target for Hate;

Casts About for Substitute

Quad City Times/December 13, 1933

Pegler Sees Merit in Lynch Law Because Pardon is Impossible

Davenport Democrat/Deceember 14, 1933

Italian Editors Skeptical,

Says Westbrook Pegler

Daily Pantagraph/December 19, 1933

Lindbergh and the Press

Decatur Daily Review/December 22, 1933

Understands $10 Bills

Decatur Daily Review/December 29, 1933

1934

Are Wrestlers People?

Esquire/January, 1934

The Life of Reilly

Esquire/September, 1934

1935

Pegler Dissects the Annual Gridiron Club Banquet and Finds It Rather Somber

Green Press Press Gazette/March 5, 1935

1936

The Conquest of Mount Epsom
Hearst Syndicate/February, 1936

1937

This is Just a Day-Dream About Money-Raising Possibilities of a Government Number Racket
Evening Independent/October 1, 1937

Big Business Should Put Fascism Beside
Communism in List of Things it Opposes
Evening Independent/October 2, 1937

It is Fortunate That There is Some Comedy Relief in This Angry Episode About Justice Black
Evening Independent/October 4, 1937

1938

Kansas City is Wide Open Town by Public "Mandate"

Pittsburgh Press/February 19, 1938

1940

Fair Enough

Montana Standard/April 16, 1950

[No Title]
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/November 1, 1940

Mr. Roosevelt's Aims
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/November 2, 1940

The Brutal Spirit of Power
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/November 3, 1940

Stooges and Fellow Travelers
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/November 6, 1940

In Debt to Uncle Sam
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/November 8, 1940

Political Abuse of Unions
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/November 9, 1940

Fitzgerald's Flappers and Failures
Los Angeles Times/December 27, 1940

1941

The Dangers of Irony
Los Angeles Times/March 7, 1941

Fort Bragg Free of Union Shakedowns

Los Angeles Times/March 14, 1941

Come Now, Mr. Fadiman!

Rutland Daily Herald/August 4, 1941