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27 of all the well-dressed Charles D. Ameringer, “The Panama Canal Lobby of Philippe Bunau-Varilla and William Nelson Cromwell,” American Historical Review, 68.2 (1963).
28 Cromwell was the New York World, 4 Oct. 1908; photographs in various publications; Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 2, 318–19; McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 272–73.
29 If Cromwell’s Bunau-Varilla interviewed by Howard K. Beale, July 1936 (HKB).
30 It was hard for Americans Bunau-Varilla, “Confidential for Mr. Lawrence F. Abbott” (PBV); McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 162, 290. John Bassett Moore, who worked closely with Bunau-Varilla in 1903–1904 (see below), observed, “He is one of the cleverest men I have ever met.” Moore to TR, 7 Jan. 1904 (TRP).
31 Now forty-two McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 400–401; biographical sketch of Bunau-Varilla, ca. 1903, in JBM.
32 Bunau-Varilla therefore Travail pour la patrie means labor for the fatherland [France], a phrase obsessively repeated by Bunau-Varilla. William Glover Fletcher, “Canal Site Diplomacy: A Study in American Political Geography” (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1940), 176. Fletcher interviewed and corresponded with Bunau-Varilla at length.
33 As an engineer “Arbitrage Entre la Compagnie Nouvelle du Canal de Panama et MM. Sullivan et Cromwell,” deposition, 24 Oct. 1907 (PBV); New York Sun, 28 Dec. 1901; Edward P. Mitchell, Memories of an Editor (New York, 1924), 343.
34 ON 24 JANUARY The Washington Post, 26 Jan. 1902. TR’s own gift was a meteorological map of the District of Columbia showing the White House to be an “Area of High Pressure.”
35 AT THE END OF Story of Panama, 279; The Washington Post, 25 Jan. 1902.
36 It was all very The Washington Post, 25 Jan. 1902; McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 263.
37 With new hearings The House voted for senatorial elections, and the Senate against. Direct election of senators was to become one of the major planks of the Progressive movement.
38 “When you come” TR to Spooner, 28 Jan. 1902, qu. in Fowler, John Coit Spooner, 262. Miner, Fight for the Panama Route, 124–25, makes a convincing argument for TR’s sponsorship of the Spooner Amendment.
39 “He really determines” Wilson, Papers, vol. 12, 262.
40 From outer space Cartoon by Edward Kemble in Life, 30 Jan. 1902.
41 A FEW DAYS TR, Letters, vol. 3, 229. The day before, he had been waited on by members of the Industrial Commission, who were about to publish their final report on the trusts. While favorable toward combination in general, the report did draw attention to the “vicious and intolerable” discriminatory practices of some interstate corporations, and echoed TR’s call for compulsory publicity of trust workings. Public Opinion, 20 Feb. 1902.
42 It was 5 February Albert J. Beveridge to Albert Shaw, 10 Jan. 1902 (AJB); The Washington Post, 19 Feb. 1902.
43 Any fool could Eitler, “Philander Chase Knox,” 61; Review of Reviews, Apr. 1902; H. B. Martin and Emlen H. Miller to TR, 30 Nov. and 9 Dec. 1901, Department of Justice files (NA).
44 “Am giving it” P. C. Knox to TR, 11 Dec. 1901 (TRB). For TR’s dispatch of his overworked Attorney General to Florida, see TR to Knox, 5 Dec. 1902 (PCK). “I am not dead,” Knox wrote a friend, “… but so far as attending to anything personal, might just as well have been.” To James S. Young, 15 Jan. 1902 (PCK).
45 Now, eight weeks Antitrust notes, Feb. 1902, in PCK.
46 Plunging deep into Memorandum, “Comment on ‘Underlying Laws’ (in all social and industrial movements), as suggested by Kidd’s Western Civilization,” ca. 1902, in PCK.
47 What, then, of Review of Reviews, Apr. 1902; P. C. Knox memo, 10 Feb. 1902 (PCK); McCurdy, “Knight Sugar Decision of 1895.” TR and Knox agreed that Kidd’s revisionist allowance seemed to apply to Knight, which had become the enabling bible of laissez-faire. The Attorney General advised that the best chance to “reverse” Knight’s effect would be to press a suit that challenged it technically, but not in principle. TR ordered him