Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manasses, made newsworthy last fortnight by Father Coughlin, who declared that Bernard Baruch got his middle name (Mannes) from him. Most Biblical scholars dismiss as mythical Father Coughlin's story of Manasseh having Isaiah sawed in twain...
Ably defending Bernard Marines Baruch against attacks from the Long-Coughlin. loudspeakers, Arthur Krock, wise chief of the New York Times' Washington staff, casually dropped a story hitherto untold by biographers of the financier. The story (to correct the Long-Coughlin estimate of Mr. Baruch's "influence" in Wall Street) : He had yearned to own the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, had been thwarted by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Baruch confirmed the story: "As a youngster in South Carolina, I used to sit beside the railroad tracks and throw pebbles after the trains...
...Father Coughlin's investments in silver on behalf of his Radio League of the Little Flower while he was preaching remonetization, the General stormed: "When a priest vowed to poverty and preaching to the poor flays the faith of a people to advance a monetary interest- his own or another-you can about conclude that Judas Iscariot was just a poor piker...
...expect politics to make strange bedfellows, but if Father Coughlin wants to engage in political bundling with Huey Long, or any other demagogue, it is only a fair first move to take off his Roman cassock...
Final fusillade in last week's radio lampooning came from Father Coughlin who took 45 min. on the air to call General Johnson a "flush Bourbon," a "cracked phonograph record," a "political corpse," a "prince of bombast." "The money changers whom the priest of priests drove from the temple of Jerusalem," cried he, "have marshaled their forces behind the leadership of a chocolate soldier forthe purpose of driving the priest out of public affairs. . . . You compare me to Judas Iscariot as a piker, the same Judas who betrayed his Lord and Master. Oh, it is not my province...