Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit last week newshawks hunted up Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, radio priest of the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Mich. Save when he announced that he was converting land across from his Shrine into a park, and when he ordered a gasoline filling station built there to force the hand of a filling station proprietor who would not sell, Father Coughlin has been sticking to religion lately. When asked to comment on the fact that he had a new superior, succeeding the late, well-meaning Bishop Michael James Gallagher of Detroit (TIME, Feb. 1), Father Coughlin...
...Royal Oak, Mich. Radiopriest Charles Edward Coughlin opened a gasoline filling station across the street from his $1,000,000 Shrine of the Little Flower...
...Charles E. Coughlin boasted that he would swing 9,000,000 votes in the last Presidential campaign, but neither major party made any noticeable effort to enlist his support. When election time rolls around, the man upon whom wise political bosses count is not the howling demagog, but the obscure little wardheeler who, through family, friends and acquaintances, can be counted on to deliver 50 or 60 certain votes. Of the smallest cog in the political machine, the precinct executive who lives with his constituents and does favors for them year in & out, Pundit Frank Kent wrote in The Great...
...Basques. If a devout Catholic and a communist fanatic could be rolled into one, the result might approximate President de Aguirre. He keeps a tall ebony-&-gold crucifix on his desk but pounds this piece of furniture with voluble class-conscious vim remindful at times of Father Coughlin. As the offensive of General Mola was just getting under way, Basque de Aguirre went on the air with an impassioned broadcast...
...coward is this Coughlin of beleaguered Bilbao. When he heard that General Mola's forces were advancing down the mountains, President de Aguirre hopped out of the luxurious hotel in which he has been living, ordered to the front every male in Bilbao capable of bearing arms, seized a rifle himself and rushed off to a brilliant, impromptu Basque counter- offensive which in latest dispatches was blocking Mola some 16 miles outside the city...