Word: coughlinism
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Mention of Boston strengthened a report that the priest had been engaging in a third-party flirtation with Joseph B. Ely. That two-time Governor of Massachusetts quickly denied knowing anything about it. Six hours before Father Coughlin went on the air, Representative Lemke, House member of the famed team of Frazier & Lemke, whose last bill proposed to lift farm mortgages with $3,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks (TIME, May 25), announced himself the Union Party's candidate for President. Picked to run with this Yale law graduate as Vice-Presidential candidate was a Harvardman, Thomas Charles...
...became counsel for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, has since made his name as a Labor lawyer. Switching parties is nothing new to him. Elected a district attorney in 1922 as a Republican, he tried for a Democratic Senatorial nomination in 1930, has currently been trying again with Coughlin backing...
...Lemke and Yale, Agriculture and Republican!" roared Father Coughlin by radio. "O'Brien and Harvard, Labor and Democrat! East and West! Protestant and Catholic, possessing one program of driving the money changers from the temple, of permitting the wealth of America to flow freely into every home...
...Coughlin-Lemke-O'Brien platform was a marvel of inclusive appeal to every crackpot and malcontent in the land. Briefly, it proposed to create a common-man's Utopia by legislative fiat. For Lemke-Coughlin inflationists there was to be a government central bank, with complete control of money and credit, which would issue new currency to retire all Government bonds, refinance all farm and home mortgages. For Townsendites, there was "assurance of reasonable and decent security for the aged." For Share-the-Wealthers, there was limitation of individual incomes and inheritances. For the benefit of anyone...
Significance. Had Huey Long lived, opined General Hugh S. Johnson last week, a third party might have brought defeat to Franklin Roosevelt next November. But even with Huey Long dead and leadership of his scattered Share-the-Wealthers fallen to a fustian evangelist; even with Priest Coughlin well past his peak of popularity; even with Dr. Townsend stripped of prestige by a Congressional investigation and minus the shrewd boss who whipped his inchoate following into a potent political organization-yet the birth of the Union Party brought grins to Republican faces, shivers to Democratic spines...