Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cross party lines and espouse the cause of Franklin Roosevelt, New Dealers had another in the Democratic primary for Senator. Representative Prentiss M. Brown of St. Ignace in upper Michigan, while not well-known throughout the State, was expected to win handily. Opposed by Louis B. Ward, Father Coughlin's onetime Washington lobbyist, Representative Brown polled only 124,000 votes, about 4,000 more than the Coughlinite...
...Johnson resigned as NRAdministrator, he had shown in his public speeches an old professional writer's picturesque gift of phrase. (As an Army officer he began by writing West Point stories for boys.) In March 1935, he employed this literary talent in his famed denigration of Radio-priest Coughlin and Louisiana's late Huey P. Long (TIME, March 18, 1935). Impressed, United Feature signed up the General to do a "lighting" daily column. Though Hugh Johnson Says began with a bang, it soon degenerated to a mere pop. Returning from abroad last April, Scripps-Howard...
...Washington Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor got into the fight by pointing out that since March 1933 only eight national banks had failed, that on Sept. 28 it would be a whole year since one had closed its doors. In Brooklyn, however, Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Boss of the Union Party, loudly bawled that the principal U. S. banks are already "busted...
...Osservatore Romano editorial which Bishop Gallagher had waved aside as "unimportant" had also been ordered by the Vatican, declared Director Castelli, who added: "I understand that the Apostolic Delegate to Washington [Archbishop Cicognani] has been instructed to watch Father Coughlin's future activities...
...Father Coughlin, to a Chicago rally next day: "Don't let them deceive you by false propaganda originating from Rome or anywhere else that the Vatican has cracked down on Bishop Gallagher or Father Coughlin. That's a lie! If they had cracked down I wouldn't be here today...