Word: coughlin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Gerald B. (for Burton) Winrod, 57, big, bellicose self-styled "Reverend," race-baiting bigot, editor of the Defender, the monthly propaganda whip of his pseudo-religious organization, "The Defenders of the Christian Faith;" of pneumonia; in Wichita, Kans. A deep-voiced radiorator who flourished in the Father Coughlin-Huey Long era, Winrod thundered his rabid invective from his Wichita headquarters, clipped his mustache like Hitler's, lumped Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower as members of the "international Jewish banking fraternity" trying "to sovietize...
...Chicago West Side ward boss, alderman (except for two brief intervals) from 1906 to 1953, and U.S. Congressman from 1953; in Chicago. Elder statesman of the city's Democratic machine, Bowler shared power all through the boodle days with "Hinky Dink" Kenna and his close friend "Bathhouse John" Coughlin, whose insurance business Bowler took over when Coughlin died (1938), once maintained his own rifle-equipped "army" to hold out against gangster attempts to invade and take over his ward...
...career of a bigot is by nature a devious one. The story of John Kasper does little to reaffirm one's faith in the people's judgement. Kasper has now gone the way of Father Coughlin and Father Feeney, but his little-mourned departure from the segregationist ranks is not the result of a popular reaction against his views or his tactics. These views and tactics simply turned...
Since Bette is too proud to fight, it seems that Authors Daniel Taradash and Elick Moll have run out of plot. But no! Ten-year-old Kevin Coughlin, who has been reading like crazy up to this point, now abhors books and concludes that Bette is a mean old witch. He has nightmares. He listens for the first time to his sub-moronic father. He cuts Bette dead on the street. He even sneaks into the library in the dead of night and sets it on fire...
Varsity lightweights: Larry Cabot, stroke; Bob Volpe, seven; Bruce Dixon, six; George Ross, five; Captain Bill Coughlin, four; Dick Timpson, three; Jack Henshaw, two, Barry Bingham, bow; George Notter...