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...gigantic music trust, unreasonably suppressing free competition in interstate commerce. Prosecutor Andrew W. Bennett made ASCAP seem exceedingly high-handed by showing that its general 5% license fee preyed even upon non-musical programs, that ASCAP collected 5?out of every $1 that broadcasters received for Father Coughlin's preachings. "Oppressive" again was the way the Society charged an electrical transcription fee ranging from 25? to 50? for each broadcast of a record. ASCAP's defense was that the fee had been established to "save" songs until sheet music and phonograph records had their chances to sell...
AMERICAN MESSIAHS-The Unofficial Observer-Simon & Schuster ($2). Timely appraisals of Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Upton Sinclair and other politicians, by the anonymous author of The New Dealers...
...saying, Father Coughlin departed mopping his brow, left town next day to spend the night with a friendly plutocratic, capitalistic stockbroker named Francis P. Keelon at swank suburban Larchmont...
Last week Father Coughlin reached Manhattan in his political barnstorming tour, made a loud speech to a $17,000 audience in Madison Square Garden (see p. 17). Next day a stern voice in Massachusetts rasped: "All those disturbing voices, the shouting, yelling and screaming, are so unbecoming to anyone who occupies the place of a teacher in Christ's Church that even the quality of their voices betrays them. They are hysterical...
Boston's stout-hearted old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, who did not bother to mention Father Coughlin by name, is the radio priest's highest-placed Catholic critic. So the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters was well aware what the "dean of the U.S. hierarchy" meant when he addressed their meeting: "There are a million ways in which any citizen of America can voice his views, but it ought to be done with self-respecting honesty and, above all, the proper respect due to superiors. . . . Oftentimes the faith of our good people is tested by those...