Terror in the City of Champions (52 page)

82.
T
IGERS
I
NSIST
I
T’S IN THE
B
AG
:
DN
, October 8, 1934.

82.
“We now cheerfully eat those words”:
DT
, October 8, 1934.

83.
“I don’t care who pitches”: Ibid.

83.
M
ICKEY THE
M
ANAGER
:
News-Week
, October 6, 1934.

83.
“We thought Detroit was a madhouse . . .”: Frisch,
Frank Frisch
, 174.

83.
Don’t win or else:
DFP
, May 5, 1935.

84.
W
HAT
H
APPENED TO
R
OWE’S
H
AND?
:
DN
, October 11, 1934.

84.
“unparalleled”: Frisch,
Frank Frisch,
174.

84.
“To hell with $50,000 . . .”: Lieb,
The Detroit Tigers
, 43.

85.
“I watched the crowd and Medwick . . .”:
DFP
, October 10, 1934.

85–86.
Charlie Jacobs spotted an opportunity:
DN
, October 7, 1935.

86.
“Those coarse and vulgar Cardinals . . .”:
DN
, October 10, 1934.

86.
“I never knew a city to take . . .”: Frisch,
Frank Frisch
, 176.

86.
“If the spirit engendered . . .”:
DN
, October 10, 1934.

86.
“There are no regrets in the hearts . . .”: Ibid.

The Attorney Down the Street

87.
Maurice Sugar biography: Numerous sources, including Sugar Collection book files, Boxes 1–7 and 118, and Sugar’s “Memorandum on the Black Legion,” Box 18, as well as Johnson’s
Maurice Sugar
.

88.
“There are a thousand times more illegal arrests . . .”: Sugar Collection, Box 118.

89.

To hell with your plan of starving
. . .”: Sugar Collection, Box 14.

89.

There’s a cry that starts them shaking
. . .”: Ibid.

89.
bought the Portsmouth football team for $15,000: Willis,
Dutch Clark
, 180.

90.
“We’d get 5,000 people . . .”:
DN
, September 10, 1971.

90.
Even Coughlin would hype the team:
Milwaukee
Journal
, November 20, 1934.

90.
Each game cost about $8,000 . . . :
DN
, October 13, 1934.

90.
“like a rabbit in brush . . .”: Dow, “The Lions’ Dutch Clark,” 1.

92.
“Is Greenberg in the house? . . .”:
DN
, March 5, 1935.

92.
Gehringer heard rumors:
DFP
, January 15, 1935.

93.
Clifton raced to Navin Field uninvited:
DFP
, January 19, 1935.

93.
“He turned out to be my guiding light”: Kelly, “Flea Clifton,” 136.

93.
his ma was strangled: Bak,
Cobb Would Have Caught It
, 243.

93.
“Let me go to camp . . .”:
DFP
, March 10, 1935.

94.
one of her teenage daughters complained:
DT
, June 7, 1936.

94.
“I gritted my teeth . . .”: Dean, “Secrets of the Black Legion,” 35.

94.
“Fordissimus”: Davis, “Labor Spies and the Black Legion,” 170.

95.
“At last I had witnessed . . .”: Stevens, “Detroit the Dynamic,” 190.

95.
“upholding a rule of terror and repression”:
DN
, October 10, 1976.

95.
“inhuman brute”: Sugar Collection, draft of autobiographical manuscript, Boxes 118–119.

95.
In Bennett’s estimation, he was closer to Henry: Bennett,
Ford
, 1.

95.
characterization of Harry Bennett: Numerous sources, including Lacey’s
Ford
, Babson’s
Working Detroit
, Bennett’s
Ford
, Bryan’s
Henry’s Lieutenants
, and McCarten’s “The Little Man in Henry Ford’s Basement.”

95.
“I am Mr. Ford’s personal man”: McCarten, “The Little Man in Henry Ford’s Basement,” 7.

95.
strangled with his own necktie: Lacey,
Ford
, 360.

95.
“pool hall clientele, the air thick with menace”: Lacey,
Ford
, 368.

95.
“right beside the garage . . .”: Ibid.

95.
released from prison into his care: Babson, Biddle, and Elsila,
The Color of Law
, 54.

96.
“They’re a lot of tough bastards . . .”: McCarten, “The Little Man in Henry Ford’s Basement,” 10.

96.
Harry Bennett’s castle home:
DN
, October 10, 1976.

96.
convince Cochrane to run for sheriff: McCarten, “The Little Man in Henry Ford’s Basement,” 10.

96.
“Uncle Harry”: Author interview with Sara Cochrane Bollman.

97.
admiring “yes” men:
DFP
, March 15, 1936.

P
ART
II
:
G
RAND
P
LANS, 1935

A New Year

101.
“My life is just about perfect . . .”:
DFP
, January 1, 1935.

101.
Crime statistics . . . : Ibid.

101.
“no home, no job, and no visible means of support”: Johnson,
Maurice Sugar
, 159.

102.
“The Brown Bomber”:
DFP
, January 5 and January 12, 1935.

102.
“We want Mickey”:
DFP
, January 3, 1935.

102.
“A lot of baseball men are predicting . . .”:
DFP
, January 5, 1935.

102.
Cochrane’s gun request:
DN
, January 6, 1935.

Mr. Hoover, Investigate

103.
William Guthrie ordeal:
DN
, June 18 and July 30–31, 1936.

104.
“A man carrying a red lantern . . .”:
DN
, July 21, 1937.

105.
“to inject typhoid germs into bottles of milk”:
DN
, August 5, 1936.

105.
“class enemies”: Ibid.

105.
“It might wipe out the whole city”: Ibid.

106.
“They did it in Russia with 30,000 . . .”: Crowley, “Black Legion Secrets Never Before Told,” 86.

106.
“the greatest menace . . .”:
DFP
, March 16, 1935.

106–7.
“This capitalist system . . . an immense danger”: Ibid.

107.
“an alleged man of God . . . figure of the priesthood”: Ibid.

107.
“of passion and prejudice”: Ibid.

107.
“toxic twaddle . . . John St. Loe Strachey”: Ibid.

107.
“I have authorized no one . . . stupid thing to do”: Ibid.

108.
“working men . . . general membership meetings”:
DFP
, March 15, 1935.

108.
“The club has operated under various names . . .”:
DFP
, April 8, 1935.

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