Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Priest Coughlin & retinue (including Senators Nye and Elmer Thomas) came to the platform great was the ovation. The hall, with 15,000 people in it, was nearly full but there was no overflow audience. First, the evening's hero let his sponsors spellbind the crowd. Applause and cheers came liberally, turning to hisses when Priest Coughlin's Washington lobbyist, Louis B. Ward, referred to "a certain kept General, Hugh S. Johnson." It was 11 p. m. before Priest Coughlin's turn arrived but the audience was still enthusiastic...
Faced with a flesh & blood audience, Priest Coughlin skipped the first six pages of a 19-page speech which he had given to the Press in advance...
...bill "to drive the money changers from the temple." To these he added for good measure the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill and the Administration's utilities holding company bill. For each one, his audience applauded vigorously. Having progressed from Page 7 to Page 12 of his manuscript, Priest Coughlin stopped as abruptly as he had begun...
From the rostrum to several days of seclusion marched Priest Coughlin. If he read what political observers had to say about his big act, he must have been disappointed. Most positive was Correspondent Joseph Cookman of the liberal New York Post: "To most of his audience, the failure to arrive at any definite results such as they had been led to expect, was puzzling. To the insiders it was little short of tragic. . . . Father Coughlin had called an organization meeting and had no program for anything except a rally...
...Priest Coughlin did not perform at his usual radio hour four days later. Instead he had a lieutenant explain vaguely that his union "now entered its third phase of development, from a school of one teacher to a school of many teachers, but with a curriculum unchanged...