ADVERTISEMENTRuthless, and armed with a fiery temperament, called the “angry North Dakota hawk” by The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Lemke didn’t like criticism without “expressing his views in a sometimes-violent manner,” the Bank of North Dakota reported. U.S. Rep. William Lemke of North Dakota in 1936. As with Coughlin, Lemke also wanted to return the power to coin money back to Congress. An October 1936 telegram from Charles Coughlin, the so-called "Radio Priest," to U.S. Rep. William Lemke of North Dakota. ADVERTISEMENTLess than a month before Election Day in 1936, Smith called for the creation of a fascist army to fight communism, and to protect polling places.