Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion of those liberal zealots who insisted on ten amendments to the Constitution, education will no doubt touch a new high peak. How the bones of Thomas Jefferson would rattle if they knew how assiduously this educator applies himself to "old-fashioned Americanism!" How William Randolph Hearst and Father Coughlin would gurgle with complacent satisfaction were there more universities with Oglethorpe's liberal attitude...
...word from Elder Statesman Saionji, 85, steadies Nippon. To Elder Statesman Root, pleading once more for the World Court last fortnight, the Senate and nation turned deaf ears, paid heed instead to the vocabularies of William Randolph Hearst and Father Charles E. Coughlin...
...Socialism but called it capitalistic reform. He took to the lecture stand, told the Matinee Musical Club of Philadelphia that "man is his brother's keeper and the old order of greed must pass." He helped found the Sound Money League, allied himself with Inflationist-Priest Charles E. Coughlin. Of his wife, whose safe-deposit boxes are stuffed with public utility stocks, he said: "Doris would agree to public ownership, but not to achieving it through confiscation...
...Combat demagogues with demogoguery" is a political axiom which the intelligent portion of this country has long neglected. Amused by the obvious imbecility of Long, Coughlin, or Townsend, yet considerably frightened by the tremendous effect of these orators on what they consider "the people of no importance," the intelligentsia have not departed from time-honored tactics. Yet these tactics have failed. No longer can a man be laughed out of existence when he holds the secret to Kingdom Come for the common people...
...technical that no one except a banking expert could hope to understand it in detail. Nevertheless, its objective was crystal clear-unchallenged Federal control of the nation's currency and credit. It did not establish a central bank such as money-fanatics like Senator Elmer Thomas and Father Coughlin have been yammering for. But if the bill is enacted in anything like its present form, the U. S. banking system will be completely dominated by whatever President is in power. Said old Professor Irving Fisher, no hard-shelled Tory: "It comes nearer to making the President an economic dictator...