Word: coughlin
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...find that practically all of them, with the ambiguous exception of John L. Lewis, are people who have fought the social reforms of the past eight years. They are such champions of labor as Henry Ford and Robert Wood, such defenders of civil liberties as Ham Fish and Father Coughlin, such tribunes of the people as Taft and Vandenberg, such bulwarks of our freedom as the Hearst press, all bound together by the awful fear that war will serve as an excuse for the further extension of governmental control over business. These are people who are paying for the anti...
...Stately, handsome John A. Hastings, promotive vanguard of the great bonanza. A onetime New York State Senator (at 22, the youngest in the Legislature's history), an oldtime crony of James J. Walker, unsuccessful candidate (although Father Coughlin backed him) for U. S. Representative in 1936, Hastings reportedly sought concessions for West Coast fishing, railroads, a trans-Isthmus pipeline. Mexican politicos thought him a U. S. Senator...
...Yeah, I've been Coughlin all week, but it doesn't MacKinney difference if I have a short snort." Huey gulped his drink. "Say, this Israel stuff. I feel like I've been Stark with a pin. I guess I won't be Sheehan much of the game with this stuff in my Lohr egions. We'd better not Delaney longer, or I won't be able to Pilate myself to the Stadium...
...Republican William Langer has survived diabetes, two terms as Governor, three trials for political conspiracy and perjury (he was finally acquitted). Out against him for the Senate are a negligible Democrat and one formidable opponent: Congressman William ("the farmer's friend") Lemke. who ran for President on a Coughlin-Townsend ticket...
Last week it looked as if no candidate on record had presented so many unpalatable arguments to so many possible supporters as had Wendell Willkie. He had spurned isolationist support and the backing of Father Coughlin; he had warned of the need for toil and sweat, sacrifice and hardship; he went up & down the land telling a people accustomed to hearing of its strength, of its present and future weaknesses. Last week's Gallup poll suggested that this course was not getting him many votes. But it was making him an increasingly able popularizer of one of the world...