The Fish That Ate the Whale (39 page)

Schlesinger, Stephen. “Ghosts of Guatemala's Past.”
New York Times
, op-ed, June 4, 2011.

Schlesinger, Stephen, and Stephen Kinzer.
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala.
Revised and expanded ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Scott, Peter Dale.
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Simon, Jean-Marie.
Guatemala: Eternal Spring—Eternal Tyranny
. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988.

Skolnik, Fred.
Encyclopaedia Judaica.
Vol. 21. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2007.

Smith, Arthur D. Howden.
Men Who Run America: A Study of the Capitalistic System and Its Trends Based on Thirty Case Histories.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1936.

Smith, C. Alphonso.
O. Henry.
Seattle: University Press of the Pacific, 2003 [1916].

Smith, Peter H.
Talons of the Eagle: Latin America, the United States, and the World
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Smyser, A. A. “Herbert Cornuelle Reflects on Hawaii.”
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
, June 6, 1996.

Soluri, John.
Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.

Stewart, Watt.
Keith and Costa Rica: The Biography of Minor Cooper Keith, American Entrepreneur.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1964.

Stiles, T. J.
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
. New York: Knopf, 2009.

Stone, Samuel Z.
The Heritage of the Conquistadors: Ruling Classes of Central America from the Conquest to the Sandinistas.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.

____
.
Telltale Stories from Central America: Cultural Heritage, Political Systems, and Resistance in Developing Countries.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

Sublette, Ned.
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
. Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 2008.

“Succeeds to Presidency of United Fruit.”
New York Times
, May 11, 1948.

“Swedish Freigher Anchors off Key West.”
New York Times
, May 28, 1954.

Taylor, Gary J., and Patricia J. Scharlin.
Smart Alliance: How a Global Corporation and Environmental Activists Transformed a Tarnished Brand.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

“They Bombed in New York.”
Time
, November 21, 1969.

Thomas, Hugh.
Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

____
.
Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan.
New York: Random House, 2003.

“391 Persons Have $1,000,000 Policies.”
Wall Street Journal
, September 16, 1931.

“To Aid Power Plant on Jordan River.”
New York Times
, June 1, 1926.

“Top Banana.”
Time
, May 19, 1967.

Travis, Mary Ann. “Doris, Zemurray, Stone Pavilions Dedicated.”
Tulanian
, March 19, 2007.

“Trouble in Green Gold.”
Time
, May 16, 1960.

Tucker, Richard P.
Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Tulane University Latin American Library, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Image Archive, Special Photos from the Yellow Fever Tour of the Isthmus, 1905; Louisiana Research Collection, Letter regarding United Fruit from Tulane Students for a Democratic Society.

Tye, Larry.
The Father of Spin: Edward Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations
. New York: Henry Holt, 1998.

“United Fruit Clears $10,729,000.”
New York Times
, July 15, 1941.

“United Fruit Closes 1938 with Business in Advancing Trend.”
Wall Street Journal
, February 4, 1939.

“United Fruit Co.”
Wall Street Journal
, March 9, 1935.

“United Fruit Co.”
Wall Street Journal
, March 14, 1943.

United Fruit Company.
The Story of the Banana
. 2nd ed. Boston: United Fruit Company, 1922.

____
.
Chiquita Banana Cookbook
. Boston: United Fruit Company, 1974.

United Fruit Historical Society (
Unitedfruit.org
).

“United Fruit Net Up in 1940.”
Wall Street Journal
, February 8, 1941.

“United Fruit Obeys.”
Time
, January 23, 1933.

“United Fruit Official Calls Retail Prices for Bananas Excessive.”
Wall Street Journal
, May 12, 1947.

“United Fruit Outlook Improved.”
Wall Street Journal
, March 7, 1935.

“United Fruit Paid $58,450 to Hart.”
New York Times
, May 30, 1935.

“United Fruit Yields in Suit.”
New York Times
, February 5, 1958.

“United Fruit's Control Shifts.”
Wall Street Journal
, March 8, 1933.

United States v. Illinois Central
, 244 U.S. 82 (1917).

U.S. Congress. House Select Committee on Small Business, 1955. Washington, DC: GPO, 1955. Discussions of Zemurray and early work with Ashbell Hubbard.

U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Manufacturers.
Consular and Trade Reports,
issues 355–57. Washington, DC: GPO, 1910. Details early business life of Hubbard-Zemurray Co.

U.S. Department of State.
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States with the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1910.
Washington, DC: GPO, 1910.

____
.
Foreign Relations of the United States, Reports and Correspondence, 1912.
Washington, DC: GPO, 1912.

U.S. House of Representatives, 62nd Cong.
Proceedings of the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries in the Investigation of Shipping Combinations Under House Resolution 587.
Washington, DC: GPO, 1913.

U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission.
31st Annual Report.
Washington, DC: GPO, 1917. Details early arrangement regarding Zemurray, United Fruit, and ripes.

“U.S. May Get Jamaica Labor.”
New York Times
, March 25, 1943.

Veeser, Cyrus.
A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America's Rise to Global Power.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

“Victor M. Cutter.”
American Magazine
, August 1925.

Voss, Carrol M. “Report on Aerial Application Procedures and Equipment Used for Control of Sigatoka Disease on Bananas in the Windward Islands and Recommendations for an Improved Program.” Berkeley: University of California, Consortium for International Crop Protection, 1981.

Waggoner, Walter H. “U.S. White Paper Alerts Americas to Aims of Reds.”
New York Times
, August 8, 1954.

Weisgal, Meyer Wolfe.…
So Far: An Autobiography.
New York: Random House, 1971.

Weizmann, Chaim.
Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann, First President of Israel.
New York: Harper, 1949.

____
.
The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann,
Vols. 1–7. Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press, 1974.

White, Richard D., Jr.
Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long.
New York: Random House, 2006.

Whitfield, Stephen J. “Strange Fruit: The Career of Samuel Zemurray.”
American Jewish History
73, no. 3 (March 1984): 307–23.

Williams, T. Harry.
Huey Long.
New York: Knopf, 1969.

Wilson, Charles Morrow.
Empire in Green and Gold: The Story of the American Banana Trade.
New York: Henry Holt, 1947.

“Would-Be Filibuster Held.”
New York Times
, December 7, 1913.

Zagoren, Ruby.
Chaim Weizmann: First President of Israel
. Champaign, IL: Garrard, 1972.

“Zemurray—Pickering.”
New York Times
, June 26, 1937.

“Zemurray Succeeds Hart as Head of United Fruit.”
New York Times
, February 1, 1938.

“Zemurray vs. Boston.”
Fortune
, March 1933.

Zemurray, Samuel. “La Frutera's Record.”
Nation
, letter to the editor, March 25, 1950.

Zemurray, Samuel, with Beverly Smith. “War Crops from Our Neighbor's Garden.”
American Magazine
, October 1943.

Zemurray, Sarah.
One Hundred Unusual Dinners and How to Prepare Them
. Boston: Thomas Todd, 1938.

____
.
Useful Information for Every Household
. Boston: Thomas Todd, 1944.

____
.
A Menu for Every Day of the Year.
Boston: Thomas Todd, 1951.

 

Also by Rich Cohen

Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams

The Avengers: A Jewish War Story

Lake Effect

The Record Men: The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock and Roll

Sweet and Low: A Family Story

Israel Is Real

When I Stop Talking You'll Know I'm Dead

 

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Copyright © 2012 by Rich Cohen

Map copyright © 2012 by Jeffrey L. Ward

All rights reserved

First edition, 2012

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material:

Excerpt from
One Hundred Years of Solitude
(
Cien años de soledad
) by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa, copyright © 1967 by Gabriel García Márquez, translation copyright © 1970 by Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells and HarperCollins Publishers.

Excerpt from
Living to Tell the Tale
(
Vivir para contarla
) by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman, translation copyright © 2003 by Gabriel García Márquez. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Excerpt from
Every Man a King: The Autobiography of Huey P. Long
, copyright © 1933 by Huey P. Long, renewal copyright © 1961 by Russell B. Long. Unabridged reprint edition published 1996 by Da Capo Press, by arrangement with Russell B. Long, Palmer Long, and Christopher R. Brauchli. Reprinted by permission of Palmer R. Long, Jr., trustee, and R. Katherine Long, granddaughter of Huey P. Long.

The poem “United Fruit Company” from
Canto General
by Pablo Neruda, translated by Jack Schmitt, copyright © 1991 by the Fundación Pablo Neruda. Published by the University of California Press. Reprinted by permission.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cohen, Rich.

   
The fish that ate the whale : the life and times of America's banana king / Rich Cohen. — 1st ed.

         
p. cm.

   
Includes bibliographical references.

   
ISBN 978-0-374-29927-9 (alk. paper)

   
1.  Zemurray, Samuel, 1877–1961.   2.  Jewish businesspeople—Louisiana—New Orleans—Biography.   3.  Banana trade—Louisiana—New Orleans—History.   4.  United Fruit Company—Biography.   I.  Title.

HD9259.B2 Z463 2012

338.7'634772092—dc23

[B]

2011041207

eISBN 9781429946292

www.fsgbooks.com

Frontispiece: Photograph of Samuel Zemurray reprinted by permission of Eliot Elisofon / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images.