Word: pegler
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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...editorial writer on the Midwest's most conservative paper, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, writing blood-and-guts editorials in favor of Barry Goldwater and against the Great Society, decrying communism and the Red Menace. He pictured himself as a young version of the right-wing columnist Westbrook Pegler--"standing flat on his feet, swinging for the belly," as he wrote home at the time...