Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, when Lamonts get thrown into jail for communistic agitation and Coughlin rules the waves, people who still own million-dollar nests at Newport speak of them apologetically, if at all, and hope furtively that no one will noise it about. While the gleaming Taj Mahals still stand in not-so-mute testimony of the glory that was Ogden Goelet's, Cornelius Vanderbilt's, and Oliver Belmont's, most of the notables of Newport have packed up the family jewels and scandals and gone off in search of simpler dwelling-places on the coasts, of Maine. Not only did conscience...
...Washington, Priest Coughlin's rally got two prominent mentions. In the Senate, North Carolina's Josiah W. Bailey, broke off in the midst of a speech to exclaim: "When a minister of the Gospel or a minister of a church comes down into the political arena and goes out with his radio incendiarism to stir up the fountains of hate in a distressed land amongst a suffering people, I take it nothing amiss and I make no apologies, but I will snatch the halo from his brow and throw it into the nearest spittoon, and then throw...
Huey Long's reaction was to sweep the Coughlin program into his own egg basket: "I think Father Coughlin has a damn good platform and I'm 100% for him. . .. What he says is right down my alley...
...Detroit meeting was not, however, Priest Coughlin's first encounter with a large audience-in-the-flesh. Year ago at Des Moines he addressed the Farmers' Holiday Association. In November 1933, in Manhattan's Hippodrome he spoke to 7,000 people assembled by members of the Committee for the Nation (inflation), told them to "stop Roosevelt from being stopped...
...made a national stir when his Farmers' Holiday Association began blockading Midwestern cities by barring produce trucks and trains. Since then, though his fame has waned, he still puts on a good show for his followers. Last year at their annual meeting in Des Moines he had Priest Coughlin as speaker. This year he invited Huey Long, Governor Olson of Minnesota. Governor Talmadge of Georgia and again Priest Coughlin. Had Mr. Reno got them all he would have had an all-star cast for a Third Party Follies of 1935. All but one star, however, found previous engagements...