Father John A. Ryan with Supreme Court Justices
Hugo Lafayette Black,Unidentified man,
William Orville Douglas, Felix Frankfurter
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Archives of the Catholic University of America
Photographs, Individuals,
Box Pi-S,…
Father John A. Ryan (1865-1945)
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Archives of the Catholic University of America
From Community Forum, c. 1917.
Father John A. Ryan collection, Box 62, Folder 14.
Many of Coughlin's followers believed that Father Ryan was a communist because of his support for Roosevelt and the New Deal. This letter illustrates that belief, as the Minnesota woman writing it asked Father Ryan to send her a book called "Toward…