Word: coughlinism
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...Christmas celebration went 18,997 people, up to last week the Auditorium's attendance record. But Gene & Glenn are not to be compared as drawing cards with such headliners in their field as Burns & Allen, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor, the Voice of Experience, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. One night last week 24,508 Clevelanders paid 25? each to see & hear Priest Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich., make the second of twelve personal appearances aimed at welding the "8,000,000 members" of his National Union for Social Justice into a working political organization...
...Priest Coughlin's much-heralded first appearance, in Detroit last month, was generally accounted a near-flop (TIME, May 6). Prepared for an overflow audience, he spoke to a comfortably filled house. He committed the fatal dramatic error of allowing his audience to stare at him for two hours while preliminary speakers exhausted them and he himself grew more nervous by the minute. When his time finally came he was obliged to omit all but a fraction of his prepared address. He offered no program of organization...
Last week Priest Coughlin waited in the wings while his Congressional stablemates (Representatives Sweeney of Ohio, Binderup of Nebraska, Lemke of North Dakota) went through their paces. At 9:40 the burly priest charged theatrically onto the platform, gave his Protestant friend, the Rev. Herbert Bigelow, an impulsive hug, strode up to the microphones. Eighteen thousand people jammed the hall. In the basement were some 7,000 more who had paid to hear Priest Coughlin through loudspeakers, see him for a few minutes after the main show. In the streets some 5,000 lackpenny Clevelanders cocked their ears to loudspeakers...
Faced with his audience's intoxicating overflow, Priest Coughlin overflowed. Time & again, egged on by thunderous applause, he departed from his text to touch new heights of abuse, imprecation, braggadocio...
President Roosevelt, he twice virtually declared, was a liar and hypocrite. Of the Banking Bill, which his foes the bankers also mortally hate and fear, Priest Coughlin roared: "In order to deceive the people of the United States, instead of driving the money changers from the temple as was promised them, the present administration in Washington is sponsoring a new banking bill popularly known as the Eccles bill . . . If you analyze this new bill, now being sponsored by Mr. Roosevelt, you will discover that it is nothing more than a marriage license between a prostitute [the Federal Reserve System...