Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder Father Coughlin preaches about blood money," cried a woman shareholder. "Here we are without a cent while you men store up millions. Mr. Grace should know that there are no pockets in shrouds...
...raised to almost $20,000, the fact made front page headlines. His biography in the Saturday Evening Post followed that of the Blue Eagle. On the dials of cheap Waterbury watches his portrait followed that of Mickey Mouse. By last week, it was clear that with Shirley Temple, Father Coughlin, the Dionne Quintuplets and Mrs. Roosevelt, Jerome Herman Dean was definitely one of that small company of super-celebrities whose names, faces and occupations are familiar to every literate U. S. citizen and whose antics, gracious or absurd, become the legend of their time...
More responsible, however, for the Baruch triumph was his double-barreled opening before the Senate Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry. The first barrel he aimed at Senator Long, Father Coughlin and others who have cast aspersions on him as a double-dyed Wall Streeter...
...pleasant it would be to view Messrs. Hitler, Long Coughlin et al, stewing in their own juice, swallowing their own words (though the looks on their faces as they did so would be horrible). The demise of the Watch and Ward Society, and the refusal of all intelligent Bostonians to the censorship of acknowledged literature and art--what a delightful fantasy! One's Imagination conjures up any number of idyllic pictures, ranging from the elimination of the profit motive and the brother hood of man, to devices that will render Boston winters things of the past...
...operation, the Kruesi Radio Homing Compass is simplicity itself. You tune in on a commercial broadcast, listen to Paul Whiteman or Father Coughlin. Then you switch off the earphones, turn on the bearing-indicator. A pointer on the instrument-board dial guides you so accurately to the broadcasting station that if a balloon were sent up from it on a string you would cut the string in half, flying blind. By taking cross-bearings on two broadcasting stations you can determine your position to a hair's breadth...