Word: coughlinism
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...whom Harry Dalton had pulled off the stand was a Christian Mobilizer, an organization spawned by radiorating Father Coughlin (though Father Coughlin denies any relationship). Harry began to attend Christian Mobilizer meetings as a heckler. At one meeting he heard handsome, Jew-baiting Joseph Ellsberry McWilliams, leader of the Mobilizers, and American Destiny Party candidate for Congress from Yorkville, Manhattan's German settlement. After listening to handsome Joe, who is part Cherokee Indian, with a smattering of formal education (a WPA public-speaking course), Harry decided that heckling was not enough. He hauled McWilliams off the stand. McWilliams...
...week's end Witnesses walked into the lions' den for fair, vowed they would hold their national convention this week at Detroit, lair of that most militant of Catholics, Father Coughlin, and only a river away from forbidden Canada...
...Catholics publish 330-odd newspapers and magazines, with a total circulation of more than 7,000,000. Many owned by dioceses, with editorial staffs appointed by and directly responsible to bishops and archbishops, they range from Father Coughlin's Social Justice to the liberal Michigan Catholic to the conservative New York Catholic News (circulation: 229,000, 40,000, 55,000 respectively...
...Mickey, where are the shows of yesteryear? Once you seemed to combine the talent of a Huey Long and a Father Coughlin; but last night at Sanders Theatre you were a dud. You had heard that the Student Union was going to present a play entitled "Waiting for Lefty". Someone had told you--for it's not likely that you read any contemporary drama but your own--that it was a leftist play. You sallied forth to go through your usual paces. This time, though, you looked off form. No one laughed. No one pledged you his vote for next...
Take away Father Coughlin's microphone and Social Justice and there would be little left but a parish priest. But Monsignor Sheen is much more than a pulpiteer: he is one of the Church's ablest converters. Much in demand for instructing converts, he spends ten hours a week at this quiet, heart-&-soul job. Some of his more notable converts: the late Hoovercrat Horace A. Mann and his wife, the late Heywood Broun, whom Monsignor Sheen baptized, gave last rites to and buried (TIME, Jan. 1). Monsignor Sheen is now preparing Henry Ford's grandson Henry...