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Widely broadcasting its claims to successor-ship to "Social Justice," a new monthly paper which manifests all the undemocratic traits of Father Coughlin's banned paper has made its appearance. Already it is receiving acclaim and active support to an extent which indicates not individual but organized interest...
Thus wrote New York City's Judge Herbert A. O'Brien (of Domestic Relations court) in the Tablet, official weekly of Brooklyn's Roman Catholic diocese. Anglophobe O'Brien, who supported Father Coughlin, and once told a Congressional committee hearing that passage of the Lend-Lease act would cause "civil war" in the U.S., had just read that the R.A.F. had bombed two Rome suburbs...
...considered opinion that none was "worthy of being put in the same species, or even in the same genus, as Gerald L. K. Smith ... a boob-bumper worth going miles to see and hear." Mencken heard Smith speak on the same platform with Father Coughlin and win hands down, despite his opponent's "habit of enforcing his points by revolving his backside...
...from a Roman Catholic priest-balding, bushy-browed Monsignor John A. Ryan of Washington. Now 73 years old but vigorous as he was 20 years ago, Monsignor Ryan has long been U.S. Catholicism's most potent social reformer. His devotion to the Roosevelt administration led Father Charles E. Coughlin to dub him "the Rt. Rev. New Dealer." Six years ago his militant support of the President's Supreme Court packing scheme caused the weekly of the Baltimore archdiocese to say he had "a Fascist, dictatorial mind...
MOSCOW--Vladimir Krushkov, Secretary of the Soviet information Bureau, charged today that William Randolph Hearst and Col. Robert R. McCormick, American newspaper publishers and the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin have taken "every step to suppress the increasing demand by American public opinion for the opening of a second front...