Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking as his title "The Pied Pipers," and as his text the anti-Administration outpourings of Rev. Charles Coughlin and Senator Long, Hugh Johnson cried: "You can laugh at Father Coughlin-you can snort at Huey Long-but this country was never under a greater menace. ... It is somebody time for somebody to get up on his hind legs and howl !" Up on his hind legs was precisely where General Johnson got and howl he did at the radio pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower: "While I do not for a moment compare Father Coughlin with...
Then we thought. Good heavens, we have a real tory at Harvard who preaches the eight-day week, ran our mind. Why we have discovered that the medical profession is worse than the Morgans who never thought of such a diabolical scheme. Is the next Long-Coughlin-Johnson battle going to be waged over Harvard University? We hope so, we have written them all about it and Mr. Richberg for good measure. To think that Harvard has a real chocolate soldier with an underslung vocabulary...
Asserting that he was "amazed and appalled" by the unrest noticed in his recent tour of the country, Filene charged that business was solely to blame for enrollment of a claimed 34,000,000 under the banners of Long, Coughlin, or Townsend. Instead of cooperating with the Administration, it had "stalled and balked and held back until the masses are now losing hope," he said...
Filene deplored the logic of those who thought that Long, Coughlin and Townsend would cut into the Roosevelt vote sufficiently to assure a Republican victory...
...most that such a victory could achieve," he said, "would be to close the door to business recovery by rational action, and to open the door for Townsend, Coughlin, Long and chaos. The same radical mass vote, if it were successful in defeating Roosevelt, won of course elect enough of its own members to Congress to hold the balance of power...