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108.
“in more or less constant jeopardy”: Report of postal inspector J. F. Cordrey, February 23, 1935, FBI files.
109.
“If they resign or abandon the organization . . .”: Ibid.
109.
“and state there is no indication . . .”: J. Edgar Hoover’s handwritten April 8, 1935, note related to March 19, 1935, memo from Department of Justice, FBI files.
109.
“In view of the fact that it is alleged . . .”: Memo from Attorney General William Stanley to J. Edgar Hoover on April 15, 1935, FBI files.
110.
Plot against Maurice Sugar: Numerous sources, including
DN
, June 12, 19, and 29, 1936, and
DT
, April 14, 1937.
111.
Fake Communist Party pamphlet:
DN
, August 3, 1936.
112.
“Clarence Darrow urges election of Maurice Sugar”:
DN
, March 31, 1935.
Harry’s Caravan
113.
“How many pitchers . . . and then some”:
DN
, March 4, 1935.
113.
“The men who have established themselves . . .”: Ibid.
114.
Navin had occasionally sent money:
DFP
, March 7, 1935.
114.
saved his life by getting him medical treatment: Ibid.
114.
“a flock” of teeth:
DN
, March 2, 1935.
114.
one-thirty-second Cherokee: Bak,
Cobb Would Have Caught It
, 252.
114.
They wouldn’t speak for the entire 1935 season:
DT
, October 9, 1935.
114.
“a grim little fellow . . .”: Lieb,
The Detroit Tigers
, 201.
114.
Lakeland clubhouse description:
DN
, March 4, 1935.
115.
“That’s a bet, Mike”:
DFP
, February 20, 1935.
115.
“That’s the thing that makes stars . . .”:
DFP
, March 5, 1935.
115.
“The big dream lures him”:
DFP
, January 13, 1935.
116.
“Gerald Walker remains . . .”:
DN
, March 7, 1935.
116.
“The Mississippi Hard Head”:
DFP
, March 8, 1935.
116.
“We didn’t win the World Series . . .”:
DFP
, January 30, 1935.
116.
“We’ll win again unless . . .”:
DN
, March 2, 1935.
116.
informed Grantland Rice:
DFP
, March 29, 1935.
117.
“Luck is a big thing in baseball . . .”:
DN
, March 1, 1935.
117.
“Hal Trosky, who is a much better . . .”:
DFP
, March 28, 1935.
117.
“blood in his eye”: Ibid.
117.
“To hell with Owen . . .”:
DFP
, March 23, 1935.
117–18.
“is the kind of man who would make . . .”:
DFP
, February 3, 1935.
118.
“If you really ain’t gonna be another Jack Johnson . . .”: Louis,
Joe Louis
, 36.
118.
tried to sign him to professional contracts:
Michigan Daily
, January 4, 2007.
118.
Harry Bennett’s caravan to the game:
DFP
, April 14, 1935.
119.
“We want them all wild . . .”: Ibid.
119.
Louis Sherry death and investigation: The information was culled from FBI files, and
DFP
,
DN
, and
DT
stories April-June 1935 and May-July 1936
.
119.
Dayton Dean’s wife would suggest:
DT
, June 5, 1936.
119.
“We believe a satisfactory explanation . . .”:
New York Sun
, June 5, 1936.
119.
“I would like to know . . .”: Dr. Bicknell letter, May 25, 1936, FBI files.
120.
“Navin Field fans are ever ready . . .”:
DFP
, April 14, 1935.
120.
“A lot of things . . . something unexpected happens”:
DFP
, April 14, 1935.
The Radio Priest
121.
ten million to thirty million listeners: “Father Coughlin,” 34.
121.
“from the more humble walks of life”:
DN
, April 25, 1935.
121.
“of such mellow richness . . .”: Stegner, “The Radio Priest and His Flock,” 232.
122.
“two pied pipers”:
DFP
, March 5, 1935.
122.
“lunatic fringes”: Ibid.
122.
“It is not exaggeration to say that . . .”: Ibid.
122.
“ridiculous rumor . . . that Father Coughlin is . . .”: Ibid.
122.
“comic-opera, cream-puff general”:
DFP
, March 13, 1935.
122.
“a political corpse . . .”: Ibid.
122.
“political termites”: Ibid.
122.
80,000 on an average week: “Father Coughlin,” 34.
123.
“a just, living, annual wage”: Joe Brown Collection, Box 7.
123.
“fair profit”: Ibid.
123.
“There are men in this audience tonight . . .”:
DT
, June 5, 1936.
123.
“For years the laboring man has endeavored . . .”:
DN
, April 25, 1935.
123–24.
“As a result of that statement, many more . . .”:
DN
, July 26, 1930.
124.
“animated not with malice but mercy . . .”:
DFP
, April 25, 1935.
124.
“Jewish gold”: Doherty, “The Amazing Career of Father Coughlin,” 44.
124.
“feed and fan flames of anti-Jewish feeling”:
DN
, March 14, 1935.
124.
“an atom of sincerity in his entire system”:
DN
, July 3, 1934.
124.
“Free speech is a wonderful thing . . .”: Ibid.
124.
region’s most prominent antisemite: For thorough explorations of Ford’s antisemitism, check Baldwin,
Henry Ford and the Jews
, and Woeste,
Henry Ford’s War on Jews
.
124.
“bigoted about Jews . . .”: Bennett,
Ford
, 83.
125.
T
HE
I
NTERNATIONAL
J
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T
HE
W
ORLD’S
P
ROBLEM
:
Dearborn Independent
, May 22, 1920.
125.
Adolf Hitler, whose waiting room . . .: Baldwin,
Henry Ford and the Jews
, 172.
125.
would become allies: Ibid., 297.
125.
“the worst physical beating . . .”: Marcus,
Father Coughlin
, 15.
125.
“No change today . . .”: Ibid., 24.
126.
Casey All-Brothers Nine: Odell,
Father Solanus
, 35.
126.
stubbornly refusing a mask: Ibid., 38.
126.
“simply of the bankers”: Casey,
Letters from Solanus Casey
, 42.
126.
“my enthusiasm for him . . .”: Ibid.
126.
“prophet”: Crosby,
Thank God Ahead of Time
, 131.
126.
“gullibility [that] . . . was able to be exploited . . .”: Ibid., 215.