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Serene and calm, Sewell Lee Avery sat down in the green leather chair in his paneled office, and waited. Day before, he had sent a telegram challenging the authority of the President of the U.S. to seize the Chicago plant of Montgomery Ward & Co., the $295,000,000 mail-order house of which Mr. Avery is the absolute, unchallenged boss. Mr. Avery had not long to wait...
...York World-Telegram, the Cleveland Press and other Scripps-Howard papers omitted the Pegler column attacking Colonel Knox. Other Pegler subscribers, with no such well-timed kill order, ran the column. Secretary Knox died next...
...since much of his support has come from such extreme isolationists as Colonel Robert R. McCormick.† Then last week Manhattan Lawyer Henry Breckenridge, onetime Democrat and onetime close friend of Charles A. Lindbergh, shed light on this issue. In a letter to the Herald Tribune, he quoted a telegram General MacArthur sent from Manila in 1940 to William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Said General MacArthur, at the height of the interventionist -isolationist debate: "You have asked my military opinion as to whether the time has come for America to give continued...
...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...
Only dissenting voice came via telegram. Its simple message: "NUTS." The signer: Edgar Allan...