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Last week Radiopriest Charles E. Coughlin was addressing a state rally of his National Union for Social Justice at Detroit's Fair Grounds. One listener not a member of the National Union was Frank ("Woody") Hockaday, onetime Wichita, Kans. automobile accessories dealer, now chiefly interested in promoting peace by means of sudden dramatic appearances with a bag of feathers. This punchinello of the 1936 political campaign first received public notice and fell into the hands of the police in June when, attired in red shorts and an Indian war bonnet, he strewed his feathers all over Philadelphia...
Last week, resplendent in a costume consisting of a red coat, white pants and a white cap, this amazingly ubiquitous character climbed unnoticed onto the speakers' platform at Detroit. As Radiorator Coughlin was loudly explaining the difference between Communism and Christianity, nimble Woody Hockaday showered him with feathers, deftly sidestepped a punch the priest aimed at him, shouted into the microphone: "You can't mix religion and politics!" While Peaceman Hockaday was being hauled off to a cell, Father Coughlin regained his composure, continued his address, feathers fluttering with every gesture...
...money to maintain a minister at the Vatican. Or, he intended to invite the collaboration of the U. S. Government in the Church's battle to the death against Communism. Again, he was going to do something about Mother Church's No. 1 demagog, Radiorator Charles Edward Coughlin. The- loudest Catholic voice in the land had continued to belabor the U. S. President in spite of the quietus which Vatican Voices supposedly had attempted to clap on him through his easy-going superior, Detroit's Bishop Gallagher, at Rome last summer (TIME...
...Charles Edward Coughlin of the Nation Union for Social Justice is 45. He was born a Canada of an Irish American father who had been stoker on the Great Lakes and of a mother who have been a scamstress. The candidate the Rev. Charles Coughlin is supporting for the presidency is William Lemke, 56, son of prairie farmers. Candidate Lemark was a Phi Delt at the University of North Dakee where be studied law. The Rev. Charles Coughlin took a doctorate in philosophy at 20 at the University of Toronto. He traveled three months in Europe as there debated...
...certain class in the country which President Theodore Roosevelt once referred to as the "lunatic fringe". These slightly unbalanced citizens are not in themselves dangerous, but when gathered behind the standard of such crack-pots as Representative William Lemke, or under the control of vicious demagogues such as Coughlin, Hearst or the late Huey Long, they constitute a serious menace to both law and order and decent government in the United States...