Word: coughlin
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...Patman Bonus bill, which President Roosevelt was in good faith bound to veto. Priest Coughlin predicted: "It would be political suicide for the President to veto the Patman bill. He is too clever a politician for that. If he does veto it-." The priest shrugged a disclaimer for the President's fate in that event...
Senator Bulkley of Ohio had dared to defy Coughlin-inspired telegrams, vote against the Patman bill. "That's his death warrant!" screeched Priest Coughlin. The audience booed approval. Swaying and flailing his arms like a college cheerleader, the priest kept the boo going on & on, finally stopped it with an imperious gesture...
...York's Senator Wagner, who had also defied the Coughlin ban, he said simply, "Well, we're going on to New York two weeks from tonight...
...Hereafter," shouted Priest Coughlin in a climactic spasm of exaltation, "anyone who writes a platform for a Presidential candidate must consult the National Union for Social Justice. You members of the National Union are stronger than any President-stronger than any ten Presidents...
...Priest Coughlin thus pronounced himself a match for not merely one President but ten for he had already let it be known that he would be the sole head & front of the National Union. Last month he promised to "select, not elect" a guiding National Council of Twelve within ten days, to name the Union's Michigan State Committee at the Cleveland rally. He left Cleveland with neither a Michigan nor an Ohio committee named. He had decided meantime that the lieutenants of his political machine would, like Ku Klux Klansmen, be masked in secrecy. Reason, as explained...