The same year, he finished third (behind Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin) for Time Magazine's "Man of the Year". In 1941, he won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing criminal racketeering in labor unions. Unhampered by coordinated convictions of his own, Pegler applies himself to presidents and peanut vendors with equal zeal and skill. Six days a week, for an estimated $65,000 a year, in 116 papers reaching nearly 6,000,000 readers, Mister Pegler is invariably irritated, inexhaustibly scornful. Mister Pegler's place as the great dissenter for the common man is unchallenged. He built up a large readership for his column "Mister Pegler" and elicited this observation by Time magazine in its Octoissue:Īt the age of 44, Mr. Pegler worked closely with his friend Roy Howard. In 1933, he joined the Scripps Howard syndicate (through 1944 ), with his inaugural column opposing the passage of an anti-lynching bill that was before Congress, in which he first coined the term "bleeding heart liberal" to describe the proponents of the bill attempting to outlaw lynching at the federal level. In 1925, Pegler joined the Chicago Tribune. In 1919, he became a sports writer for United News (New York). In 1918, he joined the United States Navy. Westbrook Pegler was the youngest American war correspondent during World War I, working for United Press Service. Pegler disliked FDR so intensely that he lamented FDR’s failed assassination by Giuseppe Zangara (pictured here in 1933 mugshots) Journalism career (Nicholson) and Arthur James Pegler, a local newspaper editor. James Westbrook Pegler was born on August 2, 1894, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Frances A. His late writing appeared sporadically in publications that included the John Birch Society's American Opinion. In 1962, he lost his contract with King Features Syndicate, owned by the Hearst Corporation, after he started criticizing Hearst executives. He also criticized the Supreme Court, the tax system, labor unions, and any federal intervention on the issue of civil rights. Īs an ardent proponent of States' rights, Pegler criticized a variety of targets whom he saw as extending the reach of the federal government, including Herbert Hoover, FDR ("moosejaw"), Harry Truman ("a thin-lipped hater"), and John F. He was a newspaper columnist popular in the 1930s and 1940s for his opposition to the New Deal, labor unions, and anti- lynching legislation. Julia Harpman Pegler (first), Maude Wettje Pegler (second)įrancis James Westbrook Pegler (Aug– June 24, 1969) was a populist conservative journalist and writer in the United States described as "one of the godfathers of right-wing populism".
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