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Show 1 1 1 ....Lr-ll:! Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: J. Edgar Hoover and the C-Men received great acclaim from all sources for rounding up those spies , . . Some congressmen, however, showed their appreciation by killing the wire-tapping bill designed to make things easier for the G-Men in espionage cases . . . What's the matter with them? . . . Afraid they'll hurt the civil liberties of a few spies and kidnapers? Many of the papers now praising the G-Men for their efficiency in rounding up the spies are the same ones that found fault with the G-Men a short time ago . . . And you were a G-Man's stooge if you defended the FBI. From page 187 of William Shirer's best seller, "Berlin Diary": "Representative "Rep-resentative Ham Fish seems to have been completely taken in by Ribben-trop, Ribben-trop, who gave him an airplane to rush in to the Inter-Parliamentary meeting in Scandinavia." Boy, that sure explains a lot of things. By all means read the article on Wheeler and Roosevelt in the July 15 Look . . . While Wheeler goes around the country wrapping him- self in the Flag and rapping the President by using all kinds of idealistic ideal-istic arguments this article proves that the whole thing is strictly personal per-sonal . . . And get this: The reason Wheeler sneers at everything the President does according to the article ar-ticle is that Mrs. Wheeler doesn't like the President! ! ! Everett Roeder, one of the alleged al-leged spies rounded up by the G-Mcn, G-Mcn, had an important job at the Sperry Gyroscope company which manufactures some of our most vital vi-tal defense material . . . When that company was first given defense de-fense contracts, we pointed out (in the column and on the air) that Nazi agents worked there ... It has taken more than a year to confirm these allegations. Congressman Coffee introduced a resolution in congress to stop the sale of oil to Japan . . . Just the other day we gave some oil to Vichy, but if we send any oil to Britain, we are trying to get the country into the war. With typical stupidity, Virginio Gayda is giving away Nazi plans . . . The other day he boasted that if Germany whips Russia, they will have air bases near Alaska and will be able to bomb the Western hemisphere hemi-sphere ... Of course, the appeas-ers appeas-ers refuse to believe that anything like that can happen. Or maybe they know they can stop bombs from hitting their homes by making certain kinds of speeches now. A bored gal buttonholed a stag at the Stork Club bar and begged him to crash the table where she sat with her kluck. "He's boring me with his monologue," mono-logue," she wept. "He's repeating himself like a day-time radio commercial." From F.P.A.'s Column: "New names for this and new names for that. How about the America Last Committee?" How about getting it first? And don't WHOM me!!! A Lexington Avenue motorist jammed on his brakes two inches from a jay-walker and cussed him to a cinder. "Gwan, you ape," the pedestrian squelched, "the last generation gen-eration of your family was menacing people with coconuts instead of cars." F.D.R. freezing Axis dough over here panicked lots of the well-heeled refugees . . . The allotment of $500 a month to everybody is going to cramp their style, shoo them out of the luxury hotels and hamper them from picking up cafe checks. But if they think their money has been frozen, wait'll they see the expressions ex-pressions on the faces of some of their fair-weather friends. iNotes of an Innocent Bystander: The Big Parade: Ex-Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock, now a soda water emir, making the rounds of the midtown joynts and grills to peddle his product . . . District Attorney Dewey boarding a taxi near the Biltmore as cabmen gape in awe . . . Spencer Tracy and Paul Muni, a couple of Holly-wiseguys. Holly-wiseguys. looking like any other two "out-of-towners" ha, ha! Sallies in Our Alley: One of the Broadway health - seekers was floored by the 90 per cent humidity . . . "Whew." he complained, "it's so hot I can't stand it under my sun lamp!" ... An actress opened in a new show and was slapped with so many summonses and attachments at-tachments on her first pay night that she thought it was snowing . . Overheard description of a midtown magazine editor: "He's so yellow he could sell the streak up his back for a caution signal." |