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Title: Westbrook Pegler, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, 1920-1939
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1920-1939]
1920/1939
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Nationally syndicated newspaper columnist Westbrook Pegler
Westbrook Pegler was a nationally known newspaper columnist who opposed the New Deal and was staunchly anti-union. His editorial column Fair Enough ran in the Los Angeles Times from Oct. 15, 1939 to September 4, 1944. He also had a sports column that appeared in the newspaper from 1925 to 1930. Pegler won a Pulitzer prize in 1941 for his columns exposing racketeering in Hollywood labor unions.
Text from negative sleeve: Pegler, Westbrook
Handwritten on negative: Westbrook Pegler
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11208
ark:/21198/zz002h96mj
Subject: Journalists--American--California--Los Angeles
Sportswriters--California--Los Angeles
Pegler, J. Westbrook (James Westbrook), 1894-1969
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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