Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actual sponsors of Potato Control were bushy-haired Representative Lindsay Carter Warren from the potato-growing northeastern corner of North Carolina and long-faced Senator Josiah William Bailey of the same State. Conservative Senator Bailey, who has opposed inflation, Government spendthriftiness, Huey Long and Father Coughlin, and who has been as cool as a Senator from a Cotton State could be toward the Bankhead Act for compulsory cotton control, frankly gave his reason for proposing Potato Control: "Farmers have continually been driven from cotton, tobacco and peanut production, and have gone into the production of potatoes. . . . We cannot afford...
...Because Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was lukewarm, Senator Robinson stepped in, took on the unpopular task of championing the World Court for Franklin Roosevelt. Father Coughlin, Huey Long and William Randolph Hearst beat the kettledrums against the Court. Senator Robinson fought valiantly but vainly (TIME, Feb. 11). Grim and glum, he received from Franklin Roosevelt (who laughed off the misadventure) a note thanking him for his "very able and very honorable fight...
...Father Coughlin said in Detroit a few months ago that Jews have only three enemies to fear-Bernard Baruch, Eddie Cantor and the motion picture industry...
...Father Coughlin is a great orator but I doubt that he has a sincere atom in his entire system. We Jews have nothing to fear from good Christians. We are their brothers and sisters. But I am afraid of people who pretend to be good Christians. You must unite to protect yourselves...
...gigantic music trust, unreasonably suppressing free competition in interstate commerce. Prosecutor Andrew W. Bennett made ASCAP seem exceedingly high-handed by showing that its general 5% license fee preyed even upon non-musical programs, that ASCAP collected 5?out of every $1 that broadcasters received for Father Coughlin's preachings. "Oppressive" again was the way the Society charged an electrical transcription fee ranging from 25? to 50? for each broadcast of a record. ASCAP's defense was that the fee had been established to "save" songs until sheet music and phonograph records had their chances to sell...