Word: coughlinism
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...rantings of Hearst and Coughlin together with Long and Townsend and the radical wing of the Democratic party do not seem to have pushed government legislation far enough to the left to satisfy the demands of certain groups among the electorate. For now introduced into Congress is the Lundeen Bill, a bill that its enthusiasts insist is the only compromise of the capitalistic system and the necessary antitoxin for depression...
Boston, March 12--American business must rally immediately "for positive support of the President's Recovery Program," if Senator Long, Father Coughlin, Dr. Townsend and other "apostles of economic vagaries are to be squelched," Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant, warned tonight...
Asserting that he was "amazed and appalled" by the unrest noticed in his recent tour of the country, Filene charged that business was solely to blame for enrollment of a claimed 34,000,000 under the banners of Long, Coughlin, or Townsend. Instead of cooperating with the Administration, it had "stalled and balked and held back until the masses are now losing hope," he said...
...Cabinet took to the radio. Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin took to the radio. Mrs. Roosevelt took to pencil and paper. The President said he was "too busy" for any observance, except to attend evensong at Washington Cathedral. Thus last week Franklin Delano Roosevelt completed his second year as President...
Radiorator Coughlin. who has been disappointed with the President ever since he failed to Inflate, gave his estimate of the last two years: ''You cannot have a New Deal without a new deck. Somehow or other the cards dealt by the New Deal contained the same joker, the same hidden cards which were found in the old deal. This time, however, not only the aces of high finance were wild, the kings of big industry were also wild. . . . The first two years of the New Deal shall be remembered as two years of compromise . . . two years of endeavoring...