One good reason why the First Convention of the National Union for Social Justice aroused so little excitement in Cleveland last week was that on the day the meeting opened, Franklin Roosevelt was paying his first visit to Cleveland's Great Lakes Exposition. Composed of as many women as men, among them a goodly proportion of Roman Catholics, the 8,153 delegates and alternates represented about 25 states. The great majority boarded at tourist camps and lodgings. Poor but loud, they burst into a 17-minute demonstration when Father Charles Edward Coughlin first appeared to...
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