Westbrook Pegler, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, 1920-1939

Title: Westbrook Pegler, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, 1920-1939
Date Created: [between 1920-1939]
Date: 1920/1939
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: 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.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Pegler, Westbrook
Handwritten on negative: Westbrook Pegler

Genre: Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
portraits
Names: Pegler, J. Westbrook (James Westbrook), 1894-1969
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Journalists--American--California--Los Angeles
Sportswriters--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_11208
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h96mj
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Rights Country: US
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