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...Basques. If a devout Catholic and a communist fanatic could be rolled into one, the result might approximate President de Aguirre. He keeps a tall ebony-&-gold crucifix on his desk but pounds this piece of furniture with voluble class-conscious vim remindful at times of Father Coughlin. As the offensive of General Mola was just getting under way, Basque de Aguirre went on the air with an impassioned broadcast...
...with Sailing Master Major Sir Philip Hunloke that the King's horses would win more races than the King's racing cutter Britannia. Died, Most Reverend Michael James Gallagher, 70, Roman Catholic Bishop of Detroit since 1918, longtime ecclesiastical friend and protector of political Priest Charles Edward Coughlin; of a throat ailment; in Detroit...
Sunday after his superior's death, Radiorator Coughlin, silent since last November's election, returned...
Most arresting feature of Commentator was its editorial comment, which ranged from nominating Franklin Roosevelt (whose portrait was on the cover) as Man of the Month, to open letters to Father Coughlin and Actress Mae West, urging the one to stay off the air, the other to retire from the cinema. Two full-page editorials on the U. S. National debt and the fate of Europe gave notice that, for the sounding-board of Publisher Payson & Associates, no subject may be considered too profound...
Three days later Father Coughlin, admitting his Union to be "thoroughly discredited," announced by radio that he was keeping his promise, quitting the air. Many a citizen found himself in hearty agreement with the political priest for the first time as he throbbed: "It is better, both for you and for me, for the country I serve and the church that I love, for me to be forgotten for the moment...