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Faced with a flesh & blood audience, Priest Coughlin skipped the first six pages of a 19-page speech which he had given to the Press in advance...
...bill "to drive the money changers from the temple." To these he added for good measure the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill and the Administration's utilities holding company bill. For each one, his audience applauded vigorously. Having progressed from Page 7 to Page 12 of his manuscript, Priest Coughlin stopped as abruptly as he had begun...
From the rostrum to several days of seclusion marched Priest Coughlin. If he read what political observers had to say about his big act, he must have been disappointed. Most positive was Correspondent Joseph Cookman of the liberal New York Post: "To most of his audience, the failure to arrive at any definite results such as they had been led to expect, was puzzling. To the insiders it was little short of tragic. . . . Father Coughlin had called an organization meeting and had no program for anything except a rally...
...Priest Coughlin did not perform at his usual radio hour four days later. Instead he had a lieutenant explain vaguely that his union "now entered its third phase of development, from a school of one teacher to a school of many teachers, but with a curriculum unchanged...
...Washington, Priest Coughlin's rally got two prominent mentions. In the Senate, North Carolina's Josiah W. Bailey, broke off in the midst of a speech to exclaim: "When a minister of the Gospel or a minister of a church comes down into the political arena and goes out with his radio incendiarism to stir up the fountains of hate in a distressed land amongst a suffering people, I take it nothing amiss and I make no apologies, but I will snatch the halo from his brow and throw it into the nearest spittoon, and then throw...