Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provoke the vehement comments which "Social Justice" has printed, then this latest action of the Civilization Plan is likely to provoke criticism of the most violent nature. Out of a list of 275 books recommended by the Committee for the Study of American Civilization, four are objectionable to Father Coughlin's publication. Out of a dozen speakers chosen by the Committee, one is persona non grata to that same magazine. Yet withal the Plan stands convicted of but one insidious purpose: the spreading of American culture by the encouragement of self-education. In selecting books and lecturers, the Committee...
...Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl, a funnier burlesque than the usual beer-&-pretzels music-hall version, which achieves "social significance" through its injunction to the innocent Bertha that "it's better with a union man." Best number in the show is The Harmony Boys, in which Father Coughlin, Fritz Kuhn and Senator Reynolds go into an uproarious song-&-dance, muttering lines like these of Fritz...
...enters the war, Catholics should "give serious thought to the question of whether or not they should be conscientious objectors." So said Archbishop Francis Joseph Beckman of Dubuque, who helped Father Coughlin in his unsuccessful keep-the-embargo fight...
...Christian Front is an "antiCommunist" organization of followers of the Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin. It is also the name of a loose federation of anti-Semitic societies, with an estimated 100,000 members. Some of these Christians (like the German-American Bund, the Christian Mobilizers), have actually been tut-tutted by Father Coughlin.* Last week the Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation, representing nearly all the Protestants in that strongly Coughlinite borough, sounded off against the Christian Front in no tut-tutting terms...
...open letter in Social Justice last week, Father Coughlin said that 90% of the Christian Mobilizers were "fine people," but its leadership was allied with the Bund. Therefore, said he, ''as much as I need $128," he was returning a check for that sum which had been raised for him by Christian Mobilizers in The Bronx...