Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rich and rare is the religious fare served up each & every Sunday in Detroit. From his suburban Charity Crucifixion Tower Father Coughlin broadcasts to the nation. In the Episcopal Cathedral Bishop Herman Page holds forth ably. Methodist residents of what they call the "Fourth City" know that Rev. Merton Stacher ("Mert") Rice of mammoth Metropolitan Methodist Church has twice declined a bishopric. Likewise nationally known in their respective churches are Presbyterian Joseph Anderson Vance, Quaker Morton C. Pearson, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin. Congregationalists Charles Haven Myers and Warren Wheeler Pickett, Disciple of Christ Edgar De Witt Jones...
Declaimed Radiorator Father Charles Edward Coughlin: "Jan. 4, 1935 brings to an end the economic principles of individualism. . . . The avowed opponents of human rights-the Liberty Leaguers, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Manufacturers Association - can find scant consolation as their programs for doles, for balanced budgets, for gold standards, for free rein in the industrial field, are indirectly consigned to the wastepaper basket of ancient history. Let them heed the words of the President that 'we have undertaken a new order of things...
Preacher of the Year was Father Charles Edward Coughlin who swayed more human opinions than any clergyman, became one of the few U. S. priests in modern times to be a power in politics and economics...
...Year" is undoubtedly Father Charles E. Coughlin, Royal Oak, Mich...
Will Rogers occupied a box with Henry Ford. Cinemactor George Raft sat with Radio's Father Coughlin. Bradenton, Fla. changed its name to Deanville. Two men died of heart failure. Children in Detroit were happy: a radio was installed in every schoolhouse auditorium to enable them to hear about it. A newborn baby was named Marvin Dean Gonda. The members of the Byrd Expedition at Little America learned that Funnyman Joe E. Brown was in Detroit. To the U. S. public, the meaning of this series of irrelevant events was completely clear. Two baseball teams were playing each other last...