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Like Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull, Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar considers Columnist Drew Pearson a liar. Last week on the Senate floor the feuding, 75-year-old Tennessean said so, 23 times, in a speech covering three and a half pages of the Congressional Record...
...thinks smart, a liar in the daytime, and a liar in the nighttime, it is remarkable how he can lie. . . . That would make no difference to this 'revolving,' constitutional, unmitigated, infamous liar, this low-lived, double-crossing, dishonest, corrupt scoundrel who claims to be a columnist...
...Westbrook Pegler's sponsors as a national columnist was Secretary Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News (until three years ago it shared Pegler's basic syndicate contract with Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram). Recently the Daily News has omitted many Pegler columns. Last week Editor Paul Scott Mowrer explained (but not to his readers) why the Daily News had stopped printing them altogether: "We find that our own columnists are much more popular...
...eating places. Most were soda fountains charging stenographers a nickel too much for a ham sandwich. But also reprimanded was Café Chambord, last Manhattan stronghold for those who must have their pâté de foie gras direct from Strasbourg. The Chambord had been commended by Columnist Lucius Beebe as a nice little place to get a $35 dinner for two without wine. Now OPA inspectors found that the Chambord was getting $15 for a $12 pheasant dinner (Le Coq Faisan en Belle Vue Edward VII, for two). The management hastily dropped Le Coq, substituted a $10 veal...
...work, the Office of Censorship excerpts such portions of foreign letters as it thinks "valuable in fighting the enemy." Such excerpts, supposedly highly confidential, are sent to other Government agencies. Plainly, someone in the Office of Censorship had slipped the juicier portions of the Kellems-von Zedlitz correspondence to Columnist Drew Pearson and Representative Coffee. Clyde Reed called for a full-dress Senate investigation. Not too gallantly, he added: "The letters may have been mushy, but they weren't seditious...