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24 On the football: ibid., p. 69.
25 “a rather hysterical …”: Harvard Crimson, May 6, 1909, KUA. 25 “Baseball is on trial …”: ibid., May 4, 1912, KUA.
25 At the beginning of : John A. Blanchard, ed., The H Book of Harvard Athletics: 1852-1922 (1923), p. 148.
26 “rather crude material”: Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 1911, KUA.
27 The game stayed close: Boston Globe, June 24, 1911.
28 “My father and I …”: TR, p. 61.
27 did not even mention Joe: Harvard Crimson, June 22, 1911, KUA.
27 one of only 36: At the end of the football season, the H men at the university doubled to seventy. ibid., December 6, 1911.
27 “2,262 undergraduates …”: ibid., December 15, 1911, KUA.
27 petitioned to graduate: Joseph P. Kennedy to P. J. Kennedy, September 30, 1911, Joseph P. Kennedy Records, HUA.
27 during his four years: Joseph P. Kennedy records, HUA.
3. Manly Pursuits
28 “If you’re going …”: interview, Joe Kane, KP.
28 With the barest hint: LL interviews with Mary Lou McCarthy and Kerry McCarthy.
29 “I had read …”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.
29 seventy-five guests: Gail Cameron, Rose: A Biography of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1971), p. 69.
29 Honey Fitz began yelling: LL interview with Geraldine Hannon.
29 “is in a condition …”: Hall, Manual, p. 69.
30 “the most desperate cases …”: Barnarr A. Macfadden, The Virile Powers of Superb Manhood: How Developed, How Lost, How Regained (1900), p. 38.
30 Some experts: Hall, Manual, p. 83.
30 “Now listen, Rosie …”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 392.
30 11 percent: Bruce A. Phillips, Brookline: The Evolution of an American Jewish Suburb (1990), p. 28.
32 “by accepting the idea …”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 272.
32 “natural cynicism”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Lord Max Beaverbrook, October 23, 1944, NHP.
34 “The strikers …”: Boston Globe, November 1, 1917.
34 “probably no one …”: David Palmer, “Organizing the Shipyards, Unionization at the New York, Federal Ship and Fore River, 1898-1945,” Brandeis University Ph.D. diss., 1989, p. 19, NHP.
34 “The female sex … “: Charles G. Herbermann, et al., The Catholic Encyclopedia (1912), p. 687.
35 suffered from an ulcer: TR, p. 80.
35 “Tommy, it’s so easy …”: interview, Oscar Haussermann, RWP. 35 close to seven hundred thousand dollars: Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father (1996), p. 31.
35 high-stakes game: ibid.
36 In January 1920: Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 305. 36 “If you need more …”: quoted in ibid., p. 307.
36 “I don’t know how …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Vera Murray, August 15, 1921, JPKP, HTF, p.29.
37 “I hope you have …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Arthur Houghton, September 19, 1921, HTF, p. 31.
37 There were 125 beds: Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 310.
37 half his wealth: Boston Globe, May 23, 1963.
38 forward-looking men: Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995), p. 233.
38 In 1926 the Canadian: A&E documentary, Prohibition, based on the book by Edward Behr, Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America (1996), an LL interview with Edward Behr.
39 “there was a …”: interview with Cartha DeLoach.
39 “Joe brought the …”: LL interview with Patty McGinty Gallagher. 39 He founded the famous: Hank Messick, The Silent Syndicate (1967), p. 163.
39 Fitzgerald says: LL interview with Benedict Fitzgerald. 39 confirmed by Q. Byrum Hurst: LL interview with Q. Byrum Hurst. 39 vowed he did not commit: Graham Nown, The English Godfather (1987), p. 47.
39 George Raft in his screen: ibid., p. 76.
39 greased with ample payoffs: ibid.
40 “everybody knew …”: LL interview with George Smathers.
40 “Joe was having …”: LL interview with Zel Davis.
40 “When I worked …”: videotaped oral history, Mel Shoemaker, courtesy Gus Russo.
41 “About ten years …”: LL interview with Christopher Kennedy.
41 $302: Joseph P. Kennedy to Robert Potter, August 17, 1920, HTF, p. 24.
42 “It’s all right …”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, pp. 324-25.
42 Were the good gentlemen: Joseph P. Kennedy was not the only observer of this hypocrisy. The late Thomas “Tip” O’Neill wrote in his autobiography of working as a groundskeeper at Harvard during