Word: coughlinism
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...President summoned to the White House Ernest Tener Weir, chairman of Weirton Steel Co. (National Steel), ordered him to settle the labor row in his mills (TIME, Dec. 25). He also received Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit. When the priest emerged from the White House, he reported: "I discovered that Mr. Roosevelt is about 20 years ahead of the thought that is current in the country today...
Both Senate and House held hearings. Banker James P. Warburg, Professor Edwin W. Kemmerer, Professor O. M. W. Sprague and several Reserve Bank officials criticized one or several aspects of the President's plans for the dollar. The House Coinage Committee received Father Coughlin of Detroit with open arms, posed with him for pictures, came member by member and whispered in his ear. and attended in awed silence while he declared...
...Charles Edward Coughlin, radiorator of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower, utterly antagonistic to Mrs. Sanger's movement, brought down the house: "The Negroes are out-begetting the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic races in this country. So are the Poles. . . . Distribution is what we need. There aren't enough hungry mouths in this country to consume the wheat we raise...
...Father Coughlin: "I'll take care of them over the radio...
London's Dr. Norman Haire, copresident of the World League for Sexual Reform, in Manhattan: "Father Coughlin doesn't care how much the children suffer on earth, so long as they are prepared to pick up their little harps and sing Hallelujah...