Word: coughlinism
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...efforts had been credited with sustaining his Party in Michigan through some 30 lean, mostly Republican, years. Charging that National Chairman Farley had broken a 1932 promise to distribute Michigan's Federal jobs through the regular Party organization, handing patronage instead to such political parvenus as Father Coughlin, Democrat Comstock last week announced his resignation from the Party. Cried he: "The Hogskis and the O'Piggys, in their scramble for jobs, have upset the trough...
...speech and press"; 2) Alfred E. Smith: "Once a friend of Education and the common man, he has sold out to privilege"; 3) Past Commander Frank Belgrano of the American Legion: ''He betrayed the idealism and patriotism of the rank & file of American Legion members"; 4) Father Coughlin: "He employs his sacred office to spread confusion, misunderstanding and falsehood...
...sent for the script. 'Dear, dear,' she said. 'There are only two plays that I wanted to see and I am forbidden to see either of them.' " Concluded Playwright Housman proudly: "They were my play and Shaw's Apple Cart." To Father Charles Edward Coughlin, who called him "a servant of the money changers," New York's Representative John Joseph O'Connor, sent the following telegram: "If you will please come to Washington, I shall guarantee to kick you all the way from the Capitol to the White House, with clerical garb...
...Speaker Byrns prepared to call for a voice vote, a stocky, red-faced, small-chinned, little figure popped out of the cloakroom, began shouting: "Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker!" It was Ohio's Representative Martin Leo Sweeney, oldtime Cleveland politician, apostle of Father Coughlin and Dr. Townsend who, as national president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, made 1,000 anti-British speeches before going to Congress...
Emerging from a "purely social" call on President Roosevelt one day last week, Radio Priest Charles Edward Coughlin announced to White House newshawks that he was preparing a test suit challenging the constitutionality of the Federal Reserve Act. Though the Act has survived several Supreme Court reviews in the 21 years it has been on the books, the banker-baiting Detroit priest proposed to attack it this time on the ground that Congress had illegally delegated its power over currency to private bankers...