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Last week Leo Fitzpatrick, doughty Celtic manager of Detroit's WJR and radio adviser to Father Coughlin switched off Tommy Dorsey's band right in the middle of their swing. The trouble was they were swinging Loch Lomond. Said Manager Fitzpatrick: "It is a sacrilege to make a swing version of a tune sacred to a lot of Scotsmen." Cleveland's WGAR and Beverly Hill's KMPC nodded their heads, pursed their lips and proclaimed a ban on swing versions of eleven old songs, including Comin' Thro' the Rye. At Manhattan's Onyx...
Last week Most Rev. Edward Mooney, new Archbishop of Detroit, cracked down on his most famed priest, Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, as had been predicted he might (TIME. June 14). To reporters Father Coughlin had said that Justice Black's appointment was a monument to President Roosevelt's "personal stupidity." had further opined that Catholicism and the C.I.O. are incompatible. Last week in his official Michigan Catholic, Archbishop Mooney expressed his regret for Father Coughlin's language, took issue with him on his reasoning. Two days later Father Coughlin announced that he was canceling his contract...
Year ago Father Coughlin promised to stop broadcasting if Franklin Roosevelt were reelected, but the New Deal's landslide did not stop him. Last week it appeared that if the President could not padlock Father Coughlin's tongue a Catholic prelate could...
Since Father Coughlin and grandfather Townsend has kinda slowed up organizin folks-and since they's a lot thet ain't named George or Fanny-I got a ideer I'd like ter form a organization of former apple butter stirrers. It would be called the "Former Apple Butter Stirrers' Society Fer The Purpose of Promulgatin, Promotin and Perpet-uatin Memories of Apple Butter Stirrin Days...
...publicity, so the Joslyn plan never made much stir until last winter when the company prepared to sell $1,350,000 worth of common stock. Financial writers then discovered Marcellus Joslyn's old labor policy, adopted during the post-War period of strikes and labor migrations, and Father Coughlin presented him with an oratorical laurel wreath. Scholarly President Joslyn-who is 64, and often mistaken for a doctor because of his black goatee and spectacles, and who still goes to the office every day except Wednesday, when he stays home to read to his wife while she knits-enjoys...