ORIGINAL pinback button of the GREAT Irish-American catholic Priest father Charles E. Coughlin!

Father Charles Edward Coughlin (October 25, 1891 – October 27, 1979) was a Canadian -born Roman Catholic priest at Royal Oak, Michigan 's National Shrine of the Little Flower Church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience, as more than forty million tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the 1930s. Coughlin used his radio program to promote Franklin D. Roosevelt and his early New Deal proposals, to issue antisemitic commentary, and later to rationalize some of the policies of National Socialist Adolf Hitler and Fascist Benito Mussolini .  The broadcasts have been called "a variation of the Fascist agenda applied to American culture".  His chief topics were political and economic rather than religious, with his slogan being Social Justice , first with, and later against, the New Deal.