The Westbrook Pegler Collection
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Noted Writer Introduces Himself
Quad City Times/December 11, 1933
"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."
1956
Sandburg Hits Wealth
Midst Waldorf Splendor
Indianapolis Star/May 14, 1956
Pulitzer Award for Iron Curtain Story
Indianapolis Star/May 15, 1956
Fair Enough
Reading Eagle/October 31, 1956
All About Adlai
Reading Eagle/November 1, 1956
1957
Secret Session Arouses Suspicion
Rome News-Tribune/April 10, 1957
Secret Session Roster Revealed
The Spokesman-Review/April 15, 1957
Tax Rules Unfair on Charities
The Spokesman-Review/April 20, 1957
The Illuminati at St. Simon's
The Spokesman-Review/April 23, 1957
1960
Castro Killer
St. Louis Globe-Democrat/July 12, 1960
Bitter Commentary
St. Louis Globe-Democrat/July 13, 1960
Government is Enemy of People
El Paso Herald-Post/October 3, 1960
Why Does Nixon Pull His Punch?
El Paso Herald-Post/October 7, 1960
1961
Defeated in Jackson: Noted Columnist Bares Riders’ Smear Attempt
Jackson Daily News/June 16, 1961
1962
The Kennedy-Pegler Debate
Journalism and Whittaker Chambers
Hitler Tried to Keep Us Out of War
El Paso Herald-Post/March 23, 1962
Garner Personifies Patriotism
El Paso Herald-Post/June 13, 1962
Pair Build Fabulous Motel
El Paso Herald-Post/August 1, 1962
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
1928
Dempsey Ready to Resume
Business as Ring Champion
Chicago Tribune/December 31, 1928
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
Decatur Daily Review/December 29, 1933
1934
Are Wrestlers People?
The Life of Reilly
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
Ice-Pick Unionism
Spartanburg Herald/May 1, 1940
Meditations on the War
Spartanburg Herald/May 2, 1940
The Klan and Company Unions
Spartanburg Herald/May 3, 1940
The Tulip Problem
Spartanburg Herald/May 7, 1940
The AFL's Anti-Crime Sham
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 12, 1940
The Fine Union Craft of the Stink-Bomb
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 15, 1940
Union Dues Finance a Fine Lifestyle
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 18, 1940
The Rules of Civilized Warfare
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 19, 1940
War, Freedom, and Fascists
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 21, 1940
Wilson's Armed Isolation
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 22, 1940
Unprepared for War
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 23, 1940
Union Boss Coerces Roosevelt Vote
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/October 29, 1940
Nepotism and the New Deal
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/October 30, 1940
The Union Racket
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/October 31, 1940
[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
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
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
1950
Truman an Old Hand at Insults
The Dothan Eagle/December 18, 1950
Wisdom of a Proposal
The Dothan Eagle/December 19, 1950
An Appreciation of Chandler
The Dothan Eagle/December 20, 1950
For Jim McGuinness' Back - A Knife
The Dothan Eagle/December 21, 1950
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