Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roman Catholic votes: 1) In a letter to the Knights of Columbus of New Haven, the President reiterated that his policy would be one, in no sense of "indifference," but absolutely of "nonintervention" with the Mexican Government in its domestic war on the Catholic Church. 2) Charles Edward Coughlin, the loud Michigan radio priest who once cried "Roosevelt or Ruin" and since has differed with the New Deal on several issues, made the breach definite. He publicly proclaimed: "Today I humbly stand before the American public to admit that I have been in error. . . . Like a grotesque Colossus, this Administration...
...fiery oratory of the late Huey, the persuasive accents of Father Coughlin, the four inch headlines of Hearst dailies--all have been used by critics of the New Deal in their efforts to brand Roosevelt as the destroyer of the Constitution and the antagonist of "American Institutions." And now from the haunts of Mac West and Joan Crawford comes a film purporting to present the history of the Constitution in color and sound...
Social Credit. Forty-seven candidates were run, exclusively in the West, by the not-yet-national Social Credit Party of Alberta's new radiorating Premier William Aberhart, a great admirer of Father Coughlin, a restive disciple of the calm British originator of the Social Credit theory, Major Douglas, and a political bigot who makes his followers take vows to read nothing and listen to nothing uttered by anyone against either himself or Social Credit (TIME, Sept. 2 & 16). The Aberhart party, victorious in Alberta, offered to pay all Canadians $25 per month in credit if and when a Social...
...people a tangible hope for better times. They must fight the vast grants of federal funds with some program which will appeal to the hearts and purses of that vast populace who listen to the gospels of such demagogues as the late Huey Long, and the ever present Father Coughlin...
...Manhattan from Cleveland last week journeyed four members of the Cardinal's entourage?Monsignor Joseph Francis Smith, prothonotary apostolic and vicar general of the diocese; President Thomas Coughlin of the Morris Plan Bank who was chosen as gentleman-in-waiting; Henry Coakley, 18, son of a prominent Catholic family who was given the privilege of bearing the Cardinal's train; Joseph J. Mulholland, who got the job of ecclesiastical valet by writing a prize-winning essay on "The Influence and Benefit of the Congress to Catholics and non-Catholics of Cleveland." These four marked time for a day while...