Word: coughlinism
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...nominate as the Man of the Year (for that matter of the "century") Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit, Mich...
...articles that made me wonder if the good old TIME was operating in its usual unbiased manner. I received this week's magazine today, and I am completely disillusioned. I will not go into the details of the sneering article that appeared in it concerning Rev. Charles Coughlin. I will not attempt to defend him for he needs no defense. His magnificent loyalty and splendid principles are well known to the American people. For a publication like TIME to put the stamp of bigotry on itself and to openly sneer and condemn the cause for which Father Coughlin...
TIME lapsed into the antique use of the word. An observation now current is that Father Coughlin is the first man since William Jennings Bryan to achieve a mass-following in the U. S. by means of oratory...
TIME refers to Detroit's radio priest, Father Coughlin as '''demagog." For this appellation the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary gives as definitions: "1. One who leads the populace by pandering to their prejudices and passions; an unprincipled politician. 2. Anciently, any popular leader or orator." Which definition was in the mind of modern up-to-the-minute TIME's usually accurate reportorial staff? I think an answer is due a subscriber and reader of long standing. I make no further comment here on this point lest I appear to be trying to put the answer...
...their work in behalf of Repeal, Alfred Emanuel Smith and Radio Priest Charles Edward Coughlin were elected honorary members of the Boston Bartenders' Union...