Word: coughlinism
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...Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin has increasingly proven that, with the possible exception of Huey P. Long, he is the ablest and most inflammatory rabble-rouser in the U. S., many a sober citizen has wondered how long his thoroughly autocratic Church would permit the radio priest to continue stirring up unchurchly controversy. Their wonder grew as Boston's outspoken old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell repeatedly flayed Father Coughlin for his "demagogic talk," "hysterical harangues," "humbugging," "pure sham'' and Father Coughlin cracked back that for 40 years the Cardinal had been notorious...
...wonder Father Coughlin preaches about blood money," cried a woman shareholder. "Here we are without a cent while you men store up millions. Mr. Grace should know that there are no pockets in shrouds...
...raised to almost $20,000, the fact made front page headlines. His biography in the Saturday Evening Post followed that of the Blue Eagle. On the dials of cheap Waterbury watches his portrait followed that of Mickey Mouse. By last week, it was clear that with Shirley Temple, Father Coughlin, the Dionne Quintuplets and Mrs. Roosevelt, Jerome Herman Dean was definitely one of that small company of super-celebrities whose names, faces and occupations are familiar to every literate U. S. citizen and whose antics, gracious or absurd, become the legend of their time...
More responsible, however, for the Baruch triumph was his double-barreled opening before the Senate Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry. The first barrel he aimed at Senator Long, Father Coughlin and others who have cast aspersions on him as a double-dyed Wall Streeter...
...pleasant it would be to view Messrs. Hitler, Long Coughlin et al, stewing in their own juice, swallowing their own words (though the looks on their faces as they did so would be horrible). The demise of the Watch and Ward Society, and the refusal of all intelligent Bostonians to the censorship of acknowledged literature and art--what a delightful fantasy! One's Imagination conjures up any number of idyllic pictures, ranging from the elimination of the profit motive and the brother hood of man, to devices that will render Boston winters things of the past...