Word: coughlinism
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...unholy triumvirate, Coughlin, Town-send and Lemke sent their pawns before the people and everywhere they fell by the way. Even Catholic centres, where Coughlin's noxious influence was held strongest, delivered in rapid succession stinging slaps in the face of the political priest. And Lemke, like a bewildered lamb before the slaughter, was trailing even in the race for representative in his home community...
Below the Mason-Dixon the wave continued unbroken. Started by Talmadge's failure in September it reached a climax in the crushing defeat of the Coughlin carbon-copy, Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, of Louisiana. This worthy successor to the mantle of Huey Long, revealed his true colours when, blinded by the rout of his forces, he turned to obscene and filthy language on the streets of New Orleans and was thrown into jail; what power he ever had ended for ever...
...Democratic Nominees for President travel in special trains, the Prohibitionist in a lower berth, the Socialist in an upper berth, the Communist in a day coach and the Socialist Laborite in a second-hand Chevrolet. The Union Party candidate travels in airplanes. Since he, with Radiopriest Charles E. Coughlin's support, "nominated" himself last June, freckle-faced William Lemke has been to 33 States, has flown some 30,000 miles...
With Father Coughlin and Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend as his principal supporters, Nominee Lemke has conducted his campaign on a thesis all his own : The Government borrows money from the bankers, pays them interest, re-deposits its money with them, borrows it again. "If the Government can do this for the international bankers, why can't it do it for us all?" On the ballot under various titles (Union Party, Union Progressive, Third Party, Royal Oak Party) in 34 States, Nominee Lemke last week hopped about like a winged knight on a chessboard, spent...
Thirty-one ballots were rejected because of duplication or totally illegible signatures or because the signature could not be found in the Official Register. Notes from Joo Stick, Father Coughlin, Mac West and two complimentary tickets for the grandstand at Rockingham were also received...