Forgotten Man, The (54 page)

“Father is going to make Ulster County”
Much of the material on Father Divine comes out of the papers of the period; the
New York Times
covered him extensively. See also Weisbrot.

“people do not like the business depression”
See, for example, “Ickes Says Roosevelt Won in Vote,”
New York Times,
Nov 11, 1938.

Casa Grande
Banfield,
Government Project
, conveys the Casa Grande detail.

The Roosevelts…were deeply distracted
Roosevelt’s preoccupation with war comes through in both his letters generally and his correspondence with Frankfurter.

Roger Baldwin was on the beach at Chilmark
Roger Baldwin’s biographer, Robert Cottrell, details both his Soviet trip and his disillusionment with Soviet Russia in the late 1930s, as well as the purge at the ACLU, in
Roger Nash Baldwin.
Other details on Roger Baldwin come from Lamson,
Roger Baldwin
.

“Well, I’ve done it”
Neal,
Dark Horse
, provides the detail about Willkie’s decision to register as a Republican in 1939. Some biographical material about Davenport comes from there as well.

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Willkie’s Wager

Root decided to…float Willkie as a candidate
Oren Root’s memoirs,
Persons and Persuasions
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1974), supply the story of his enthusiasm for Willkie. Material on the campaign comes also from the Willkie Papers at Indiana University.

“Wonder Boy”
Felix Frankfurter’s attitude toward Willkie comes from Freedman,
Roosevelt and Frankfurter
.

“Learn to Say: President Willkie”
“Willkie Serves Notice on Democrats,”
New York Times
, July 17, 1940.

“They will vote to continue the New Deal”
Potofsky’s position is reported in Dubofsky and Van Tine,
John L. Lewis.

“essential to the national defense”
See “For TVA Speed Up as Defense Move,”
New York Times
, July 10, 1940; and, for the details of Lilienthal’s press conference, “Roosevelt Signs TVA…,”
New York Times
, August 1, 1940.

Coda

Roy Stryker
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s online exhibit of urban photography provides details of Stryker’s bio.

Sixty thousand people filed outside
“Willkie Tribute Paid by 60,000 Here,”
New York Times,
October 10, 1944.

In researching this book I found period papers and magazines most useful. Newspapers and magazines used as sources include the
Washington Post
, the
New York Times
, the
New York American
, the
Richmond Times-Dispatch
, the
Nation,
the
New Republic, Newsweek
, and
Time.

Archived Papers

Roosevelt’s papers are at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library at Hyde Park, New York. The Lilly Library at Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana, houses Wendell Willkie’s papers. Some of the Insull material comes from Loyola University Archives; especially interesting is an unpublished manuscript by Burton Y. Berry, the State Department executive who escorted Insull home from Greece (“Mr. Samuel Insull,” Berry, Burton Y. Loyola University Archives, Insull Collection, Folder 17-2).

Alzada Comstock’s papers are at Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections, 8 Dwight Hall, 50 College Street, South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Rexford Tugwell’s papers are at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library at Hyde Park, New York, with the president’s and Mrs. Roosevelt’s.

Irita van Doren’s papers, in the Library of Congress, contain some material from the period of her relationship with Willkie.

Much of the Schechter material comes from Supreme Court documentation from the October term, 1934, found in
Case No. 854, A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corporation, Schechter Live Poultry Market, Joseph Schechter, Alex Schechter, and Aaron Schechter, Petitioners v. United States of America.

Online Resources

Dow Jones Indexes, djindexes.com; Dow Jones Industrial Average and utilities index.

“Bridging the Urban Landscape,” online exhibit, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit.

The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute’s online library, the New Deal Network, http://newdeal.feri.org.

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