Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feed the B. E. F. costs about 7? per day per man. Father Charles Coughlin, radio priest of Detroit, forwarded $5,000. About $2,500 was raised by exhibition boxing matches. Home-town friends loaded trucks with free supplies and started them to Washington. The B. E. F. seemed in no immediate danger of starving...
...Apparently a reference to round-faced father Charles E. Coughlin of the Detroit diocese, radio preacher, who last week presented himself before the House Ways & Means Committee to say: "To pay the Bonus will . . . put $2,000,000,000 into . . . trade. ... It will compel us to revalue the . . . dollar. . . . We have given the last transfusion . . . and soon we will have a corpse on our hands. ... If we do not revalue the dollar legally-remember Russia . . . the French revolution . . . our own revolution...
Censorship. Last summer Columbia Broadcasting System announced it would no longer sell its time to preachers, would instead put on its own "Church of the Air." Many people believe that this change of policy was caused by the broadcasts of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin from the Shrine of the Little Flower of Jesus near Detroit. Father Coughlin organized his own chain, has since broadcast to a large audience. Last week The Christian Century, while calling Father Coughlin "erratic, illogical, cheaply sensational," expressed alarm at continued attempts to have him excluded from...
...Academy; Northrop Clarey, Jr., The Phillips Exeter Academy; R. N. Clartenburg, The Episcopal Academy, Overbrook, Pa.; D. C. Clos, Phillips Academy, Andover; T. C. Collier. The Phillips Exeter Academy; E. M. Cook, Arlington High School; J. P. Coolidge, Groton School; J. C. Cort, Taft School, Watertown, Conn.; B. H. Coughlin, Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa.; J. C. Cowdin, Jr., St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.; D. A. Crafts. The Phillips Exeter Academy; G. J. Cronin, Boston Latin School; N. B. Davison, Melrose High School; Josiah Derby, Boston English High School; R. B. Doremus, Gloucester High School; J. H. Duffy, Lynn...
While the Coughlin incident may well have illustrated to Columbia officials the difficulties to be encountered in selling time for religious broadcasting, their new policy closely corresponds to the one followed by National Broadcasting Co. since its formation in 1926. NBC donates about 32 hours a week to religious broadcasts. The Federal Council of Churches selects the speakers in programs intended for Protestant audiences, notably Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. The Laymen's Committee of the National Catholic Welfare Council selects Catholic speakers, notably Rev. John A. McClorey, who conducts Sunday services at 6 p. m. followed by questions & answers...