Word: coughlinism
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With alarm the Cardinal perceived that great masses of citizens both Catholic and Protestant were being stirred on the neutrality issue by the persuasive baritone of Royal Oak, Mich.-Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, with whom Cardinal Mundelein had crossed swords publicly in the past. The Cardinal knew that the Vatican, neutral in the War, was concerned about U. S. neutrality. Bishop Sheil had just returned from a visit to Rome, had hotfooted to Washington for a two-hour lunch in the White House. It then became known that his C. Y. 0. speech would be broadcast and that it would...
While the Gallup and other polls continued to show a majority cross-section of the U. S. for repeal, Congressional mail ranged 10-to-1 to 1,000-to-1 against. Even discounting half that mail as inspired by such professional rainmakers as Father Coughlin, there were enough sane, sincere letters in the downpour to give shivers to Congressmen, notoriously the most mail-pervious group...
...vast majority of U. S. churchmen were, for the time being at least keeping God out of it. The president of the Federal Council of Churches plumped for strict neutrality. So did Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Father Coughlin, the National Baptist Convention (Negro). The National Council of Methodist Youth vowed its refusal to participate in "any war in which the U. S. may engage...
Back smacked a "spokesman" for Father Coughlin: "So free speech must be consigned to the wastebasket-all America must suffer-in order to muzzle Father Coughlin...
...when Emerson and Mutual offered Father Coughlin a chance to talk back on the next Roosevelt broadcast, the radio priest demurred. Said he, it would be "undignified" for him to aid the sale of Emerson products. Then big Mutual offered to put him on at its own expense. Father Coughlin again demurred, explained that Elliott Roosevelt would be taken care of by his "spokesman," Father Edward Lodge Curran of Brooklyn's International Catholic Truth Society, on the regular Coughlin network this week.* Radiomen recalling that Father Coughlin had turned down an invitation to talk on NBC's Town...