Ponzi's Scheme_ The True Story of a Financial Legend - Mitchell Zuckoff [141]
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destined to inherit: “Editor of Post Dies,” Boston Post, May 10, 1924, p. 1.
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largest-circulation newspaper: Editor & Publisher, January 22, 1921, p. 41.
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largest in the nation: Editor & Publisher, March 19, 1921, p. 1.
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fifteen printed: Herbert A. Kenny, Newspaper Row: Journalism in the Pre-Television Era, Globe Pequot Press, 1987, p. 18.
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“On roof and wall”: Oliver Wendell Holmes, “After the Fire,” 1872.
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oceans of water: Kenny, p. 19.
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The eager buyer was the Reverend Ezra D. Winslow: “The Short Story of a Big Swindle,” Boston Times, January 30, 1876, p. 1.
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forged the signatures: “E. D. Winslow: A Partial List of His Forged Endorsements and More of His Guilty Doings,” Boston Post, from the newspaper files of the Boston Public Library, date missing.
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fewer than three thousand subscribers: Kenny, p. 20.
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antiquated printing plant: “Editor of Post Dies,” Boston Post, May 10, 1924, p. 1.
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Grozier was born: Ibid.
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“It was soon raised”: Keene Sumner, “A Great Editor Tells What Interests People,” American, January 1924, p. 37.
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most profitable and most copied newspaper: “Sensationalism: Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World,” Cambridge History of English and American Literature in Eighteen Volumes, 1907–21, vol. 17, online at www.bartleby.com.
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“I never saw”: Keene Sumner, “A Great Editor Tells What Interests People,” American, January 1924, p. 117.
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one thousand dollars in gold coins: Kenny, p. 23.
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wish was to buy a newspaper: Ibid., p. 119.
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his meager price range: “Editor of Post Dies,” Boston Post, May 10, 1924, p. 1.
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“If you have even the slightest objection”: Keene Sumner, “A Great Editor Tells What Interests People,” American, January 1924, p. 37.
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crowded with newspapers: Timelines of Massachusetts newspapers prepared by Henry Scannell of the Boston Public Library.
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“a small, brownish man”: Kenneth Roberts, I Wanted to Write. Doubleday, 1953.
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“Of first importance”: G. S. MacFarland, “The Owner of the Boston Post,” Hearst’s Magazine, May 2, 1914.
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“By performance rather than promise”: “Editor of Post Dies,” Boston Post, May 10, 1924, p. 1, excerpt taken from October 14, 1891, editorial.
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dropped the paper’s price: Kenny, p. 24.
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“Most of the time”: Keene Sumner, “A Great Editor Tells What Interests People,” American, January 1924, p. 122.
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Accounts of Post promotional gimmicks, including the Boston Post Cane: Kenny, pp. 32–33; Keene Sumner, “A Great Editor Tells What Interests People,” American, January 1924, p. 121; Laurel Guadazno, “The Boston Post Cane,” Provincetown Banner, January 13, 2000.
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friend to the little guy: Kenny, p. 53.
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careful reader of the census: Ibid., pp. 54–55.
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“identical justice”: Ibid., p. 57.
Chapter Four: “A long circle of bad breaks”
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“Bianchi the Snake”: Herbert L. Baldwin, “Canadian ‘Ponsi’ Served Jail Term,” Boston Post, August 11, 1920, p. 1.
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inspector named W. H. Stevenson: Letter of immigration, inspector James Yale to John Clark, commissioner of immigration, Montreal, Canada, viewed online at www.mark-knutson.com.
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an old schoolmate: Ponzi, pp. 23–24.
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the old friend was Antonio Salviati: “Receivers Grill Ponzi,” Boston Traveler, August 21, 1920, p. 1.
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Ponzi bought the deal and pleaded: Ponzi, pp. 26–28.
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lounged in the plush seats: Ponzi, p. 29.
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“might as well be a gilded cage.”: Ibid.
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A. C. Aderhold: “Planned Coup While Prisoner,” Boston Herald, August 12, 1920, p. 3.
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F. G. Zerpt: “Arrest in Ponzi Case May Be Made Today,” Boston Post, August 12, 1920, p. 1.
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Ignazio “the Wolf” Lupo: Lupo also was known as Ignazio “Lupo the Wolf” Saietta. Jay Maeder, “Pay or Die: Lieutenant Petrosino and the Black Hand, 1909,” New York Daily News, March 3, 1998, p. 49. Also www.gangrule.com/biography.php?ID=1.
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kinship with his countryman Lupo: Ponzi, p. 30.
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Lupo was tough: Ibid.
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Charles W. Morse: Henry F. Pringle, The