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...loves parties, horses and publicity. After their marriage in 1935 they became the glamor boy & girl of the New Deal. Chip became secretary of the Democratic National Committee, a job which pays no salary, involves no duties. But there were some people in Washington who thought that even this phantom post might be useful to Chip Robert. One day last week a fellow Georgian, Representative Carl Vinson, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, read into the Congressional Record a statement showing that Robert & Co. had lately snared eight out of 66 Navy building contracts, with a total...
...describes this week in Faith for Living, 333 pages as hortatory as Isaiah, as alarming as The Book of Revelation. But by implying that every right-feeling man these days must awake with a shriek and a shiver in the dead of night to find himself surrounded by phantom parachutists, he somewhat alienates sympathy for his case...
Probable reason was given by Ace Reporter George Dixon of the New York Daily News. Wrote Satirist Dixon: "Phantom-like men in white have been responding by day and night to mysterious signaling from a secluded Westchester mansion-now disclosed as the secret quarters of Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick. . . . Invariably they carry carefully wrapped packages. . . . They salute with all the precision of storm troopers, deliver the packages, salute again-and silently depart. . . . Super-sleuthing finally solved the mystery just before last midnight. Jerome Glasser, treasurer of a large corporation, revealed that ... his company has been doing business with the Nazi...
...Phantom Arsenals. Anxious to break down the general reluctance of the people to accept dictation and to prevent growing criticism of the Government for not restoring pre-war conditions, the regimented press urged Frenchmen to realize that they cannot expect to recover "the easy life of yore." More than mere anxiety lay behind a Government decree providing the death penalty for civilians found with firearms after July 30. In the chaotic days of the armistice, control was lax and a large percentage of military equipment was not surrendered. Thoughts of this "phantom arsenal" in the hands of a desperate citizenry...
...This so-called 'fifth column' conveys nothing to me because it doesn't exist except in the imagination of fantastic minds or as a phantom created by unscrupulous propaganda for obvious purposes. Incompetent governments drive their peoples into war, and when they pitiably collapse, it is understandable that they prefer to shift the responsibility elsewhere...