William Randolph Hearst employed a fellow by the name of Francis James
Westbrook Pegler, who wrote under the name of Westbrook
Pegler(pronounced Peggler) As the years passed, Pegler began to attack
FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt. I recall reading hateful articles by
Pegler long after FDR was dead.
" He denounced the civil rights movement and in the early 1960s wrote for the
John Birch Society,
until he was invited to leave because of his extreme views."(from Wikipedia)
In 1962 Pegler lost his contract with King Features Syndicate(owned by
Hearst), because of his attacks on Hearst Executives.
Westbrook Pegler was my "Go To Guy" anytime someone told me that the
American Press was Liberal.
Carl Jarvis
On 5/29/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The original plan was for universal social security. Everyone at birth
would
be enrolled in the plan. There would be a federal government contribution
with funds coming from a sales tax. Henry Morganthal, (secretary of the
treasury) and the Southern senators disagreed. They proposed a system based
only on contributions from employers and employees that would omit poor
black people. This funding system differed from all the European social
security systems. Also, FDR initially proposed universal health care
insurance which he quickly dropped under pressure. 65 senators were in
favor of the US joining the World Court until Hearst propagandized against
the plan in his papers and told citizens to send telegrams to their
senators
and representatives opposing it on the basis that the US would be giving up
its sovereignty.
Miriam
