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Providence R. I., March 7--General Hugh S. Johnson, former NRA Administrator, told the Rhode Island Bar Association here tonight that there has been a favorable reaction to that part of his Monday night speech in which he attacked the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, the radio priest...
...page again. Apparently such events as the washroom black eye will not dampen an unquenchable thirst to be before the public eye. Now the Senator from Louisiana bombastically attacks General Johnson for the benefit of Randolph Hearst's news hawks, and much to the delight of the Reverend Father Coughlin...
There are some who look askance at the consistency with which the views of Hearst, Long, and Coughlin coincide. Stout Republicans and staunch Democrats possess insidious forebodings that such a powerful triumvirate may not be as harmless and as purposeless as it seems, with the 1936 elections looming not so far ahead. It will be remembered that the Hearst Syndicate was solidly behind Honest John Garner and solidly opposed to Roosevelt until the latter's nomination seemed a foregone conclusion in the Democratic convention. It must be realized that the good Father's flock of some millions...
...this insinuation seems to call for a grain of salt, let the public press be examined. Let the political analyst point out how unerringly Hearst, Long, and Coughlin are found on the same side of the fence. It has been said that elections are brought about in the hotel rooms of convention delegates. There are some shrewd men who believe in beginning long before...
...longer do we have to turn on radio programs featuring Stoopnagle and Budd, Fred Allen, or even Joe Penner, in a desperate search for amusement. We have merely to listen to Hugh Johnson caterwauling about "musical blatant bunk from the rostrum of religion" in reference to Father Coughlin, or another "Pied-Piper (Huey Long) tootling on a penny whistle," all the while mixing his idioms in a grandiloquent style that is the despair of professional comedians. The newspapers also provide farcial tilts, with the highly electric crackles of the buffoon from Louisiana alternating with the heavy artillery of Senator Robinson...