Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago: "In this campaign we must choose between President Roosevelt or Governor Landon. . . . For the liberals to split their votes is merely to play into the hands of the Wall Street gang. I have the utmost respect for the Union ticket candidate [z. e., William Lemke] and for Father Coughlin, whose program of monetary reform is sound. . . . However, I think the defeat of Landon is of the utmost importance to the great masses of America. . . ." Second telegram was to Franklin Roosevelt, who had wired him to ''keep up the good fight," suggested seeing him on his drought trip...
...Exposition. Composed of as many women as men, among them a goodly proportion of Roman Catholics, the 8,153 delegates and alternates represented about 25 states. The great majority boarded at tourist camps and lodgings. Poor but loud, they burst into a 17-minute demonstration when Father Charles Edward Coughlin first appeared to "democratize ' his Union, hitherto a one-man show, put steam into its campaign to elect Representative William Lemke U. S. President in November...
Keynoter of the three-day shindig was young Senator Rush Holt of West Virginia, apostate New Dealer, who delivered a 90-min. harangue in favor of all Father Coughlin's"16 points" of Social Justice, net of which is that cheap money is the key to a rich life for all. Orator Holt evoked boos for Representative John J. O'Connor (who last spring threatened to kick Father Coughlin from the Capitol to the White House), Herbert Hoover, the du Ponts, Carter Glass, WPA, the Federal Reserve System. He won cheers for Thomas Jefferson. Father Coughlin. Social Justice...
Bishop Gallagher: "In talking with prelates who asked what all the hullabaloo was about, I gave them a pretty picture of all that Father Coughlin was doing. But some objected, There is a spot on your picture. He called the President a liar.' Then I would tell them, 'We have erased that blemish.' I wiped that slate clean before I sailed for Italy. I urged him not to use expressions such as calling the President a 'liar,' because it failed to show respect for an office which deserves _______ respect. After I had discussed this with...
Bishop Schrembs: "Father Coughlin is really fighting for the preservation of American democracy, which I am sure will successfully withstand European surges toward Communism and toward Fascism. . . . Father Coughlin's stand on money is in accordance with the Pope's encyclical Quadragesimo Anno. If you read that you will find it more radical than Father Coughlin himself...