Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Private Man. If the biggest public man in the inflation fight was Senator Thomas, the biggest private man in the fight was Father Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit. Early in 1932 Father Coughlin (Kawg-lin) having damned Prohibition and likened Andrew Mellon to Judas Iscariot, was getting 80,000 or more letters a week from his listeners. He went to Washington to appeal to the Post Office Department for a special postal substation to handle his mail. While there he too met George LeBlanc and thenceforward his sermons took on a more and more economic tinge until...
Last week Father Coughlin was pursuing a course strikingly parallel to that of the inflationists in Congress. When Congressmen walked out from their caucus on remonetizing silver, they could have stopped at any newsstand and bought a copy of Mr. Moley's magazine Today, could have read in it an article by Father Coughlin earnestly advocating symmetallism (a cousin of bimetallism, but with differences perhaps more notable than its likeness to its relative). And the same day that Senator Thomas was revealing to the Press a draft of a bill for substituting gold certificates for the gold reserve...
Other witnesses who have agreed to appear in Washington to explain their views include Father Charles E. Coughlin, Irving Fisher, Yale professor and "commodity dollar" advocate, Frank A. Vanderlip, former New York banker and Technocracy enthusiast, and James P. Warburg '17, Manhattan banker...
...nominate as the Man of the Year (for that matter of the "century") Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit, Mich...
...direct and straightforward attacks against "legal(?) czars" of the past, for the betterment of the millions in the U. S. A. and abroad, puts into total eclipse such former idols as our ex-Governor. The history of this era, when written, will record the name of Rev. Chas. E. Coughlin in bold relief...