Word: coughlin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unholy triumvirate, Coughlin, Town-send and Lemke sent their pawns before the people and everywhere they fell by the way. Even Catholic centres, where Coughlin's noxious influence was held strongest, delivered in rapid succession stinging slaps in the face of the political priest. And Lemke, like a bewildered lamb before the slaughter, was trailing even in the race for representative in his home community...
...Democratic Nominees for President travel in special trains, the Prohibitionist in a lower berth, the Socialist in an upper berth, the Communist in a day coach and the Socialist Laborite in a second-hand Chevrolet. The Union Party candidate travels in airplanes. Since he, with Radiopriest Charles E. Coughlin's support, "nominated" himself last June, freckle-faced William Lemke has been to 33 States, has flown some 30,000 miles...
With Father Coughlin and Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend as his principal supporters, Nominee Lemke has conducted his campaign on a thesis all his own : The Government borrows money from the bankers, pays them interest, re-deposits its money with them, borrows it again. "If the Government can do this for the international bankers, why can't it do it for us all?" On the ballot under various titles (Union Party, Union Progressive, Third Party, Royal Oak Party) in 34 States, Nominee Lemke last week hopped about like a winged knight on a chessboard, spent...
Thirty-one ballots were rejected because of duplication or totally illegible signatures or because the signature could not be found in the Official Register. Notes from Joo Stick, Father Coughlin, Mac West and two complimentary tickets for the grandstand at Rockingham were also received...
Last week, resplendent in a costume consisting of a red coat, white pants and a white cap, this amazingly ubiquitous character climbed unnoticed onto the speakers' platform at Detroit. As Radiorator Coughlin was loudly explaining the difference between Communism and Christianity, nimble Woody Hockaday showered him with feathers, deftly sidestepped a punch the priest aimed at him, shouted into the microphone: "You can't mix religion and politics!" While Peaceman Hockaday was being hauled off to a cell, Father Coughlin regained his composure, continued his address, feathers fluttering with every gesture...