"[A]n American fascist who says he represents Father Coughlin's [weekly paper] Social Justice. None of us can stand the fellow and suspect he is spying on us for the Nazis."
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William L. Shirer Berline Diary (1941), as cited in Martin Filler "Prince of the City", The New York Review of Books (December 22, 1994)
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Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect.
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