Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Priest. Into the convention hall next morning strode another burly divine, not by a stage entrance but by the front door. As he marched up the long aisle Townsendites shrilled and roared. Some even leaned out to touch his coat as he passed. Last fortnight Rome buzzed with gossip of a telephone call which Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin had made to the Vatican, belatedly asking permission to take part in the U. S. Presidential campaign. For a month the Political Priest had had a candidate in the field-North Dakota's Representative William Lemke...
...Charles E. Coughlin and North Dakota's Representative William Lemke. To his new Manhattan headquarters went Father Coughlin to prepare for a radioration at week's end on "Why I Can Support Neither the New Deal nor the Old Deal." Questioned about a third party, the political priest explained that canon law forbade his actually starting one. But he readily admitted that a candidate was in view, that a platform had been submitted to him "through a third person," that the candidate had only to accept the platform and announce his candidacy to gain the Coughlin endorsement...
Mention of Boston strengthened a report that the priest had been engaging in a third-party flirtation with Joseph B. Ely. That two-time Governor of Massachusetts quickly denied knowing anything about it. Six hours before Father Coughlin went on the air, Representative Lemke, House member of the famed team of Frazier & Lemke, whose last bill proposed to lift farm mortgages with $3,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks (TIME, May 25), announced himself the Union Party's candidate for President. Picked to run with this Yale law graduate as Vice-Presidential candidate was a Harvardman, Thomas Charles...
Significance. Had Huey Long lived, opined General Hugh S. Johnson last week, a third party might have brought defeat to Franklin Roosevelt next November. But even with Huey Long dead and leadership of his scattered Share-the-Wealthers fallen to a fustian evangelist; even with Priest Coughlin well past his peak of popularity; even with Dr. Townsend stripped of prestige by a Congressional investigation and minus the shrewd boss who whipped his inchoate following into a potent political organization-yet the birth of the Union Party brought grins to Republican faces, shivers to Democratic spines...
...were the most famed virtuosos of fretted instrumentalism, some of them playing on instruments worth thousands of dollars. Tenor Banjoist Albert Bellson played, for the first time anywhere, Bach's famed Chaconne, which is ordinarily a sombre, magnificent violin showpiece. Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program with that maestro known to all Hawaiian guitarists, Sophocles Papas. Finally there was "the world's greatest mandolinist," Giuseppe Pettine of Providence, R. I., of whom the official Guild Reporter said in advance of his platform appearance...