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Coughlinites Shout Anti-jewish Slogans in Picketing Wmca

January 23, 1939
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Anti-Semitic slogans were shouted today as several hundred supporters of Father Charles E. Coughlin picketed the building of Station WMCA for the fifth successive Sunday, demanding that the station broadcast the “radio priest’s” talks. Persons in the crowd were heard to shout such phrases as “Down with the atheistic Jews!” “The atheistic Jews are running the country!” and “The Jews are Communists.” The pickets carried signs denouncing Station WMCA and its president, Donald Flamm. One of the signs condemned Supreme Court Justice-designate Felix Frankfurter. The picketing was first organized by Allen Zoll, who said he was director of the “Committee for American Constitutional Rights.”

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