Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train with Father Coughlin as it sped East was Mrs. Roosevelt bound out of Detroit. There she had dedicated a slum clearance project, spent a morning at her brother Gracie Hall Roosevelt's cottage on Brown's Lake near Jackson, Mich., while neighbors with field glasses ogled the First Lady disporting herself on the beach in shorts...
...fairly frequent visitor to the White House in the early days of the Administration was Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, the plump radiorator from Royal Oak, Mich. He subsequently split with the President over Inflation, the Bonus, the World Court. Recently, however, Father Coughlin shut up his Washington lobby, conceded: "President Roosevelt enunciates the clearest, most effective and beneficial principles of social and economic justice of any living American political economist." That Franklin Roosevelt had taken a potent critic into camp seemed to be confirmed last week when Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Securities & Exchange Commission rolled up to Hyde...
Vacancy. Outside of his own clique of back-scratchers in Louisiana, Huey Long had few friends in public life. On the principle of de mortuis nil nisi bonum, his numerous enemies gave the Kingfish a charitable verbal sendoff. Spokesmen like General Johnson, Father Coughlin, James A. Farley and the New York Times chorused, in effect: "I didn't like anything about him, but I'm sorry he was assassinated...
...Alberta new Social Credit Premier Aberhart, having got his $2,500,000 loan, announced that he was leaving for Detroit to confer with Radio Priest Coughlin. Said William Aberhart: "I am going to see Father Coughlin because I am in search of the most expert advice on this continent! We do not need Henry Ford's assistance but I should like to talk to him also because of his interest in economics...
Said Father Coughlin after conferring with Premier Aberhart: "Social Credit is nothing new and has been in the Constitution of the United States since it was written...