Word: iscariot
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...Fatherland to the town in which he knew they could make least trouble. Oberammergau. There, after the news broke, passion ran high. Snarled a Storm Troop leader more outspoken than the rest: "Next year there should be no difficulty in finding the right man to play Judas Iscariot...
...behalf of his Radio League of the Little Flower while he was preaching remonetization, the General stormed: "When a priest vowed to poverty and preaching to the poor flays the faith of a people to advance a monetary interest- his own or another-you can about conclude that Judas Iscariot was just a poor piker...
...political corpse," a "prince of bombast." "The money changers whom the priest of priests drove from the temple of Jerusalem," cried he, "have marshaled their forces behind the leadership of a chocolate soldier forthe purpose of driving the priest out of public affairs. . . . You compare me to Judas Iscariot as a piker, the same Judas who betrayed his Lord and Master. Oh, it is not my province to classify myself with the eleven faithful Apostles. I am content to leave that to the justice of history and to the judgment of God. ... I rejoice that never once have I sold...
Private Man. If the biggest public man in the inflation fight was Senator Thomas, the biggest private man in the fight was Father Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit. Early in 1932 Father Coughlin (Kawg-lin) having damned Prohibition and likened Andrew Mellon to Judas Iscariot, was getting 80,000 or more letters a week from his listeners. He went to Washington to appeal to the Post Office Department for a special postal substation to handle his mail. While there he too met George LeBlanc and thenceforward his sermons took on a more and more economic tinge until...
...referendum. Would he acquiesce? If he did, what then? Asked this question by the Christian Science Monitor last week, Prohibitor Clarence True Wilson gave the Dry answer: "Drys would not support him and would go to extreme lengths to repudiate what they would consider a policy of Judas Iscariot. . . . They would either put up an independent candidate or would vote for the other [Democratic] side even though it were Wet as a rebuke for that kind of leadership...