Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money changers have not been driven from the temple," declared Radio-priest Charles Edward Coughlin last week in his letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt apologizing for having called the President of the U. S. a liar. If Father Coughlin were statistically-minded, he could have buttressed his assertion with a list of the busiest U. S. banking houses in the first six months of this year, as compiled last week by the Wall Street Journal. The figures were less impressive than they used to be because security registration statements now reveal the actual amount underwritten by each house. Formerly...
...Presidential year, if polls and experienced observers did not forecast a close election. Because of these facts, the coalition of discontent welded last week when Pensioneer Townsend and Share-Our-Wealther Smith agreed to back Inflationist Lemke, go on a four-ring barnstorming tour with him and Inflationist Coughlin, aroused serious political speculation. Hardly the simplest-minded members of the Lemke-Coughlin-Smith-Townsend following could expect their votes to put North Dakota's Lemke in the White House. What they might do. what their New Deal-hating leaders passionately hoped they would do, was to put Franklin Roosevelt...
Whose racing stable will lead the 1936 list of winners is a question that will he decided next Jan. 1. Whose stable will appear at the bottom of the list will probably never be known, but a likely candidate will certainly be John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin, famed sporting alderman of Chicago. Mr. Coughlin races a stable of 29 horses in and around Chicago. Last week at Arlington Park a Coughlin-owned filly named Roguish Girl won a race. The fact made banner headlines on Chicago sports pages. It was the first race won by a Coughlin entry this year...
...confused with Radiopriest Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit, John J. Coughlin is famed as much for his bright waistcoats, his huge paunch and his absurd poetry, as for his losing racehorses. A onetime rubber in a Turkish bath establishment, he saved his tips, opened a bathhouse of his own in 1890. First all-night establishment in the city, it prospered promptly, enabled Bathhouse John to get a grip on the Democratic vote of Chicago's First Ward which he has never lost. Huge, burly, white-haired, he keeps sacks of potatoes and bread to dole out to his constituents...
Hale and cheerful at 75, only slightly muddled in his recollections of a remarkable career, Alderman Coughlin goes to his office at 9:30 a. m., leaves for the track soon after lunch. His companion is usually his crony and political ally, "Hinky Dink" Kenna. Occasionally, Bathhouse John rides to the track on the front seat of his limousine because the back seat is filled with feed for his horses, to which he gives such names as Sub-Committee, Honored Sir, Official. Why they win so few races is a mystery to Chicago sports writers, who have blamed everything from...