The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century (Vintage) (119 page)

25.
Long and Long,
Ford Era at Richmond Hill,
p. 2.

26.
Constance Clark, “Reminiscences,” pp. 16–19; Gill, “Reminiscences,” pp. 2–3; Long and Long,
Ford Era at Richmond Hill,
pp. 2–3; Kinzie, “Ford Lends a Hand,” pp. 23–24; Bryan,
Beyond the Model T,
pp. 190–91.

27.
Typed brochure, March 1940, in acc. 587, box 70, FA, detailing various educational activities at Richmond Hill; Kinzie, “Ford Lends a Hand,” p. 24; Long and Long,
Ford Era at Richmond Hill,
p. 6.

28.
Gill, “Reminiscences,” pp. 4–7; Long and Long,
Ford Era at Richmond Hill,
pp. 4–5; Bryan,
Beyond the Model T,
p. 188.

29.
Bryan,
Beyond the Model T,
pp. 192–94.

30.
W. B. Eidson, “Reminiscences,” pp. 7, 30; Tom Phillips, “Reminiscences,” pp. 2–9; Long and Long,
Ford Era at Richmond Hill,
pp. 9, 11.

31.
Bryan,
Beyond the Model T,
pp. 194, 189, 193; Robert Rankin, “Reminiscences,” pp. 45–46; Kinzie, “Ford Lends a Hand,” p. 24.

32.
DeLorge, “Reminiscences,” pp. 27–28; Phillips, “Reminiscences,” p. 13; Bryan,
Beyond the Model T,
pp. 194–95; Rankin, “Reminiscences,” pp. 43–45.

33.
Searle, “Reminiscences,” p. 37; David L. Lewis, “Working Side by Side,”
Michigan History Magazine,
Jan.–Feb. 1993, pp. 25–30.

34.
Mrs. Stanley Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” p. 47; Phillips, “Reminiscences,” p. 24; Eidson, “Reminiscences,” pp. 29–30.

35.
John H. Tienken, “The Ford Farms,” memoir, in Vertical File—“Richmond Hill,” FA.

36.
A Series of Talks Given on the Ford Sunday Evening Hour by W. J. Cameron, 1934–1935
(Dearborn, 1935), pp. 7–11.

37.
“Mr. Ford Doesn't Care,” p. 126. See Bryan,
Henry's Lieutenants,
pp. 53–57, for a biographical sketch of Cameron.

38.
On Ford's radio projects, see Bryan,
Beyond the Model T,
pp. 91–96; Lewis,
Public Image,
pp. 311–15.

39.
Bryan,
Henry's Lieutenants,
pp. 53–57.

40.
See “Cameron Renamed as President of the Anglo-Saxon Federation,” July 2, 1935, newspaper clipping, in Vertical File—“Cameron, W. J.,” FA; see also Neil Baldwin,
Henry Ford and the Jews
(New York, 2001), pp. 261–67, for Cameron's association with the British-Israelite movement. On this sect, see also Michael Barkun,
Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement
(Chapel Hill, N.C., 1994), pp. 3–31.

41.
William J. Cameron, “Reminiscences,” p. 155, quoted in text; “Mr. Ford Doesn't Care,” p. 134; William C. Richards,
The Last Billionaire
(New York, 1948), pp. 150, 260; Fred L. Black, “Reminiscences,” p. 148, quoted in text.

42.
“Radio Favorites,”
Fortune,
Jan. 1938, pp. 88, 91; “Four Hundred Fords,”
Newsweek,
Dec. 31, 1945, p. 85.

43.
Cameron, “Reminiscences,” pp. 221–22; Harvey Pinney, “The Radio Pastor of Dearborn,”
Nation,
Oct. 9, 1937, pp. 374–76.

44.
Charles E. Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford
(New York, 1956), p. 29; Cameron, “Reminiscences,” pp. 228, 95, 24.

45.
See “Contents,” in
Series of Talks 1934–1935;
“Contents,” in
A Series of Talks Given on the Ford Sunday Evening Hour by W. J. Cameron, 1935–1936
(Dearborn, 1936).

46.
Series of Talks, 1934–1935,
pp. 12–15;
Series of Talks, 1935–1936,
pp. 90–93.

47.
Fred Black, quoted in John W. Spalding, “The Radio Speaking of William John Cameron,”
Speech Monographs,
March 1959, p. 49; Ben Donaldson, transcript of interview with him, Fred L. Black, and Walter Blanchard, p. 67, in acc. 65, box 7, FA; Ken McCormick, “Spokesman for Henry Ford,”
Radio Guide,
Dec. 1939, p. 4.

48.
Cameron, “Reminiscences,” p. 227. Cameron's surviving radio talks alone fill boxes 5, 6, 7, 8 in acc. 44, FA.

49.
Black, “Reminiscences,” pp. 160, 141–42; Pinney, “Radio Pastor of Dearborn,” p. 374.

50.
Black, “Reminiscences,” pp. 142–45; Lewis,
Public Image,
p. 326; David L. Lewis, “The Ten Most Important People in Henry Ford's Life,”
Car Collector,
June 1978, p. 28.

51.
McCormick, “Spokesman for Henry Ford,” p. 4; Spalding, “Radio Speaking of Cameron,” p. 48; Lewis,
Public Image,
p. 326.

52.
Pinney, “Radio Pastor of Dearborn,” p. 376; Spalding, “Radio Speaking of Cameron,” pp. 51, 55.

53.
McCormick, “Spokesman for Henry Ford,” p. 4; Paul Hutchinson, “Heretics of the Air: Mr. Ford's Mr. Cameron,”
Christian Century,
April 17, 1935, pp. 508–10; Pinney, “Radio Pastor of Dearborn,” p. 376; Thomas S. Green, “Mr. Cameron and the Ford Hour,”
Public Opinion Quarterly,
Oct. 1939, pp. 669–75.

1.
The Ford/Pearson incident was covered in the Detroit
Free Press
: “Ford Hands Challenge to Commentator,” Aug. 25, 1943; “Drew Pearson Accepts Ford Battle Bid,” Aug. 25, 1943; “Ford's Challenge,” Aug. 27, 1943; “Crack Pots Send Pearson ‘Pot of the Month,’ ” Aug. 30, 1943; “Pearson Backs Up on Ford Challenge,” Aug. 30, 1943. These articles are quoted in the text.

2.
“Henry Ford, 80,” and “If I Felt Better I'd Have to Run, Ford Says at 80,” both in Detroit
News,
July 30, 1943.

3.
Rufus Wilson, “Reminiscences,” pp. 8–9.

4.
Ibid., pp. 8, 15; Raymond J. Jeffreys,
God Is My Landlord
(Tecumseh, Mich., 1967 [1947]), p. 36.

5.
Documents on HF's hernia operation, in acc. 572, box 7, FA; Mrs. Stanley Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” p. 40; Robert Rankin, “Reminiscences,” p. 74; Ernest G. Liebold, “Reminiscences,” pp. 1305–6.

6.
Al Esper, “Reminiscences,” p. 105; letters, reports, and prescriptions from Drs. B. R. Shurly, Lawson B. Coulter, and I. R. Peters, in acc. 1, box 113, FA.

7.
Dr. F. Janney Smith, “Reminiscences,” pp. 24–25; Ford R. Bryan,
Beyond the Model T: The Other Ventures of Henry Ford
(Detroit, 1990), pp. 201–3, on the Ford Hospital; Dr. Lawson B. Coulter, letters and memos to HF, in acc. 572, box 7, FA; Liebold, “Reminiscences,” pp. 1313–18; William J. Cameron, “Reminiscences,” p. 184.

8.
Smith, “Reminiscences,” pp. 22–23.

9.
Ibid.; Jeffreys,
God Is My Landlord,
pp. 81, 93; Charles E. Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford
(New York, 1956), p. 266.

10.
Statement of Dr. Frank Sladen, July 26, 1951, in
Edgar Leroy Bryant
v.
Clara Ford Estate,
in acc. 513, box 12, FA.

11.
Statement of Dr. John G. Mateer, July 17, 1951, in
Edgar Leroy Bryant
v.
Clara Ford Estate,
in acc. 513, box 12, FA; Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 266, 271–72, 313; Allan Nevins and Frank Hill,
Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933–1962
(New York, 1962), p. 242; David L. Lewis,
The Public Image of Henry Ford: An American Folk Hero and His Company
(Detroit, 1976), p. 291.

12.
Herman L. Moekle, “Reminiscences,” pp. 185–86; E. F. Wait and Logan Miller, “Reminiscences,” cited in Nevins and Hill,
Ford: Decline and Rebirth,
p. 242; Irving Bacon, “Reminiscences,” pp. 210–11.

13.
Liebold, “Reminiscences,” pp. 1323–24, 1220–21, 1191, 1176–77.

14.
Rankin, “Reminiscences,” pp. 52–54.

15.
Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 273–74.

16.
“Ford Blames ‘Sabotage’ in Submarine Disasters,” New York
Times,
June 20, 1939; “Ford Believes War Threat Is Just a ’Big Bluff,' ” Detroit
Free Press,
Aug. 29, 1939; Wilson, “Reminiscences,” p. 36.

17.
HF, “An American Foreign Policy,”
Scribner's Commentator,
Dec. 1940, pp. 3–6; “Ford Urges All Aid to British and the Axis; He Sincerely Hopes They Both Collapse,” New York
Times,
Feb. 16, 1941.

18.
James Newton,
Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, and Charles Lindbergh
(New York, 1987), p. 107.

19.
“Government Cancels Plans to Have Henry Ford Produce Airplane Engines,”
Commercial and Financial Chronicle,
June 29, 1940; “Ford in America First,” New York
Times,
Sept. 25, 1940.

20.
Esper, “Reminiscences,” pp. 48–49; Lindbergh to Frank Hill, Nov. 13, 1959, in acc. 940, box 27, FA.

21.
Wilson, “Reminiscences,” p. 32; Lindbergh, interview with Frank Hill, Oct. 27, 1959, in acc. 940, box 27, FA; Lindbergh to HF, Sept. 22, 1940, in acc. 1, box 141, FA.

22.
Michele Sayers and A. E. Kahn, “American Merchants of Hate,”
Friday,
Sept 27, 1940, p. 4; Henry Paynter, “Henry Ford: Richest Anti-Semitic Propagandist in U.S.,”
PM,
Aug. 14, 1940, p. 8. Harold Lavine, “Fifth Column Literature,”
Saturday Review of Literature,
Sept. 14, 1940, p. 16, made a similar attack on Cameron and Ford for “fascist” leanings.

23.
Ken Silverstein, “Ford and the Fuhrer,”
Nation,
Jan. 24, 2000, pp. 11–16.

24.
William J. Cameron, form letter, n.d., in “PM and Friday—Attack on Mr. Ford and Mr. Cameron” folder in acc. 44, box 15, FA; Cameron, “Reminiscences,” p. 213; Liebold, “Reminiscences,” p. 1533. Silverstein, “Ford and the Fuhrer,” argues that Ford Motor Company profited directly from wartime production of Ford-Werke; Neil Baldwin,
Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate
(New York, 2001), assigns moral responsibility to the company. I find Silverstein's evidence unpersuasive, and Baldwin's accusation reasonable but overdrawn. Ford Motor Company's rebuttal,
Research Findings About Ford-Werke Under the Nazi Regime
(Dearborn, 2001), and the conclusions of Simon Riech, “The Ford Motor Company and the Third Reich,”
Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies,
Winter 1999, strike me as more convincing in their assertion of Ford-Werke's separation from the parent company by the U.S. entry into the war in 1941.

25.
“Ford Pledges His Help in the World Crisis,” New York
Times,
Jan. 16, 1941; “1,000 Planes a Day—Easy Task, Henry Ford Says,” Washington
Post,
June 11, 1940; Harry Bennett,
We
Never Called Him Henry
(New York, 1951), p. 122; Wilson, “Reminiscences,” pp. 36–37; Russell Gnau to Charles Sorensen, March 19, 1941, in acc. 38, box 93, FA.

26.
“Ford Repudiates Bias Against Jews,” New York
Times,
Jan. 12, 1942; “The '43 Ford,”
Fortune,
Feb. 1943, p. 113; James Newton,
Uncommon Friends,
p. 112.

27.
“The '43 Ford,” pp. 112–13, 208, 210; “Sorensen of the Rouge,”
Fortune,
April 1942, pp. 79, 114, 116, 120; Nevins and Hill,
Ford: Decline and Rebirth,
pp. 188–208.

28.
Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 282, 281, 286–92; “Sorensen of the Rouge,” pp. 79–80, 114, 116; Lewis,
Public Image,
pp. 348–62, esp. pp. 351–52 for Sorensen's wartime comments.

29.
“The '43 Ford,” pp. 113, 208, 210; Charles Lindbergh to Frank E. Hill, Dec. 6, 1959, pp. 4–5, in acc. 940, box 27, FA; HF, quoted in n.t.,
Rotarian,
Sept. 1944, n.p., in Vertical File— “World War II,” FA; “The Battle of Detroit,”
Time,
March 23, 1942, pp. 10, 14.

30.
Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 313, 317.

31.
Ibid., pp. 313, 317; Bennett,
We Never Called Him Henry,
pp. 155–59.

32.
Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 292–97, 315; Lewis,
Public Image,
pp. 356–57.

33.
“Battle of Detroit,” pp. 10–14.

34.
Acc. 19, boxes 168, 169, 170, FA; John W. Thompson, “Reminiscences,” pp. 42–43.

35.
“Ford at 79 Expects War to End in a Few Months,” Detroit
News,
July 30, 1942; “Ford at 79 Is Optimistic About Post War Prosperity,” Columbus
Dispatch,
July 30, 1942; “Ford, 79 Today, Hopes His Plants Can Help Shorten War,”
Daily Mining Journal,
July 30, 1942.

36.
“From Bombers to Houses,”
Motor,
Oct. 1942, p. 206; “Ford Plans to Build Big Post-War Planes,” New York
Times,
Nov. 13, 1943; “Ford to Abandon Aviation in Peace,” New York
Times,
March 30, 1945.

37.
Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
p. 321; Liebold, “Reminiscences,” p. 1176.

38.
Liebold, “Reminiscences,” p. 1486.

39.
A. J. Lepine, “Reminiscences,” pp. 26–29, 31–32, 35.

40.
Ibid., pp. 24–26, 66–67, 61–64.

41.
“Mr. Ford Doesn't Care,”
Fortune,
Dec. 1933, p. 132; E. T. Gregorie, “Oral History,” pp. 64–65, FA.

42.
Lepine, “Reminiscences,” pp. 7, 25, 70; Henry Dominguez,
Edsel: Henry Ford's Forgotten Son
(Warrendale, Pa., 2002), pp. 135–54.

43.
For a complete survey of Edsel's design projects, see Henry Dominguez,
Edsel Ford and E. T. Gregorie: The Remarkable Design Team and Their Classic Fords of the 1930s and 1940s
(Warrendale, Pa., 1999).

44.
Ibid., pp. 38, 86–87, 201–3, 51.

45.
Liebold, “Reminiscences,” p. 1493; Esper, “Reminiscences,” pp. 95–96.

46.
Fred L. Black, “Reminiscences,” pp. 49, 53.

47.
Gregorie, “Oral History,” p. 23; Emil Zoerlein, “Reminiscences,” pp. 71–72.