Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposition, crying: "Your city is being sold out from under your feet!" At his broadcast appeal, a flood of protest telegrams hit Washington, just as they had at almost every other proposal (TIME, March 27). Secretary of the Treasury Woodin asked Detroit's spellbinding radio priest, Father Charles Coughlin, to defend the plan.* More telegrams hit Washington, bringing the total to some 10,000, divided about equally for & against. Ostensibly the spokesman of 3,500 Detroit policemen whose insurance plan funds were tied up. Commissioner Watkins, a stockholder in the closed banks, voiced the feelings of all stockholders...
...routine medley of sermons, prayers, hymns, sacred music by soloists and choristers. Occasionally it is colorful, as when a Eucharistic Congress or the dedication of a cathedral is broadcast. Religious talks, like those of Los Angeles' Rev. Robert Pierce ("Bob") Shuler and Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, are often embarrassing and distasteful to churchmen. Last fortnight, for the second time, religion went on the air purely & simply as news. When National Broadcasting Co. decided to build up a "Lowell Thomas of Religion," it went straight to young Dr. Stanley Hoflund High, journalist and preacher. Since piloting...
...Archbishop John Joseph Williams, loved by Catholics and non-Catholics alike, than the present rich, intellectual but imperious Cardinal, who in the past nine months has been in headlines, flaying "crooning" (TIME, Jan. 18), "the big moneyed interests," and a radio priest (presumably Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin-TIME, April...
...Joseph Coughlin...
Most conspicuous Roman Catholic priests in the U. S. are Father Charles E. Coughlin of the Detroit diocese, whom William Henry Cardinal O'Connell of Boston flayed last spring for "demagogic talk" over the radio in behalf of cashing the Bonus; and Father James R. Cox of Pittsburgh, who invaded Washington with a jobless "army" last winter (TIME, Jan. 18) and is candidate for President of the U. S. on a "Liberty" or "Jobless" party ticket. Father Cox talks loudly of taking over all U. S. wealth, all U. S. banks, providing public works to end unemployment. "Either...