Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AMERICAN MESSIAHS-The Unofficial Observer-Simon & Schuster ($2). Timely appraisals of Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Upton Sinclair and other politicians, by the anonymous author of The New Dealers...
...Father Coughlin got some of his biggest applause when he shouted out against President Roosevelt's new relief wage scale: "Think of it-a meagre $50 a month for administrative work! . . . There is an American standard of living. My friends, if we are forced to see $19 or even $50 paid for such work in what we call a New Deal, then this plutocratic, capitalistic system must be constitutionally voted out of existence...
...saying, Father Coughlin departed mopping his brow, left town next day to spend the night with a friendly plutocratic, capitalistic stockbroker named Francis P. Keelon at swank suburban Larchmont...
Last week Father Coughlin reached Manhattan in his political barnstorming tour, made a loud speech to a $17,000 audience in Madison Square Garden (see p. 17). Next day a stern voice in Massachusetts rasped: "All those disturbing voices, the shouting, yelling and screaming, are so unbecoming to anyone who occupies the place of a teacher in Christ's Church that even the quality of their voices betrays them. They are hysterical...
Boston's stout-hearted old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, who did not bother to mention Father Coughlin by name, is the radio priest's highest-placed Catholic critic. So the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters was well aware what the "dean of the U.S. hierarchy" meant when he addressed their meeting: "There are a million ways in which any citizen of America can voice his views, but it ought to be done with self-respecting honesty and, above all, the proper respect due to superiors. . . . Oftentimes the faith of our good people is tested by those...