Colonel Roosevelt - Edmund Morris [417]
7 I have never Roosevelt v. Newett, 13–14.
8 “about seven tablespoons” “Brandy” sic. See above, 588.
9 “Because of my” TR quoted by Jay G. Hayden, correspondent for the Detroit News, in an interview with Hermann Hagedorn, 10 Dec. 1948 (TRB).
10 Doctors Lambert Roosevelt v. Newett, 45–70.
11 “He is about” Ibid., 58–61.
12 He sat tilted Cedar Rapids Republican, 29 May 1913.
13 By mid-morning Roosevelt v. Newett, 109. In pretrial depositions, the defense had relied on the testimony of distant witnesses who had found TR’s behavior strange on four occasions: during campaign appearances in Ohio and Michigan on 17 May and 8–9 Oct. 1912; at an air show in St. Louis on 11 Oct. 1910; and at a dinner for Speaker Joseph Cannon in Washington on 7 May 1906. The first three of these allegations were easily rebuffed with primary evidence, and just before the trial began, a former reporter prepared to swear to the fourth skipped across the Canadian border to escape an unrelated charge of grand larceny. Palmer, “Teddy Roosevelt’s Libel Trial.”
14 James Pound said Roosevelt v. Newett, 111–12.
15 Pound returned triumphant Ibid., 325, 92, 178. There were no trial proceedings on Friday, Decoration Day.
16 By Saturday morning Roosevelt v. Newett, 355–56.
17 “a tool of the steel trust” During TR’s speech on 9 Oct. 1912, a man in the audience had objected to this characterization of Young, calling TR a “liar.” The exchange prompted Newett’s editorial. TR subsequently carried Marquette County. Holli, “Roosevelt v. Newett.”
18 The trial was won Roosevelt v. Newett, 358.
19 Throughout, Roosevelt had Atlanta Constitution, 1 June 1913; Roosevelt v. Newett, 358.
20 After it was all over The jury foreman significantly forgot to use the word plaintiff in announcing, “We find for Theodore Roosevelt.” The New York Times, 1 June 1913.
21 “Are you and Newett” The wording of this anecdote closely follows that of Thompson, Presidents I’ve Known, 125. See also ibid., 194–95.
22 Roosevelt v. Newett was The New York Times, 2 and 3 June, Fort Wayne News, 28 May 1913.
23 “I am very glad” TR to KR, 2 June 1913, ts. (TRC). According to Abbott, Impressions of TR, 284–85, Bowers & Sands, TR’s New York law firm, waived its fee on the ground that he had been unjustly libeled.
24 It occurred to him EKR to ERD and Richard Derby, 11, 28 May 1913 (ERDP); TR to KR, 1 May and 2 June 1913, ts. (TRC). KR’s new employer was the Anglo-Brazilian Forging, Steel Structural & Importing Company, a start-up venture promising high future rewards. KR to ERD, 30 Apr. 1913 (ERDP).
25 “Sometime I must” Kermit Roosevelt, The Long Trail, 65.
26 Roosevelt had in fact TR to ERD, 1 June 1913 (ERDP); TR, Letters, 7.731; Chicago Tribune, 8 Dec. 1912.
27 “Great risks and hazards” The Outlook, 1 Mar. 1913.
28 For a variety of reasons EKR ascribed TR’s need for physical adventure in the spring of 1913 to political frustration. “Father needs more scope,” she wrote ERD, “and since he can’t be President must go away from home to have it.” Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 397.
29 In Paris, on the See Ecksteins, Rites of Spring, chap. 1, for the famous premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 29 May 1913, and the portents it held for a world about to slip into war.
30 He found his TR to KR, 24 May 1913. ts. (TRC). TR’s current reading included Vladimir Simkhovitch’s Marxism versus Socialism. (TR, Letters, 7.742.) Although the book confirmed his prejudices about the equalization of wealth, he was hardly less approving of free-market capitalism.
31 “It is rather” TR, Letters, 7.741.
32 “I shall be glad” TR, Works, 6.4; TR, Letters, 7.741.
33 The pious doctrines The New York Times, 23 Apr. 1913. The Hobson-Sheppard Resolution of 1913, calling for a prohibition amendment to the Constitution, was the seed of the Eighteenth Amendment of 1919. It passed the House in 1914, but failed to achieve a