“I suppose there were close to 500,000 Ettore”: Amsterdam News, September 26,1936.
JOE LOUIS UNDER KNIFE: Baltimore Afro-American, November 7,1936.
“Now, one presumes”: New York Mirror, September 27,1936.
“I don’t believe it”: Ibid. November 13,1936.
“Schmeling’s only defense is Joe Jacobs”: New York World-Telegram, December 1, 1936.
“Such things cannot be!”: Ibid. December 11, 1936.
“Imagine Promoter Mike Jacobs or Manager Yussel Jacobs”: New York Mirror, December 13,1936.
“The heavyweight champion of the world a Nazi!” New York World-Telegram, December 15,1936.
“goose-stepped with Schmeling”: Amsterdam News, December 19,1936.
“superannuated geezers”: Daily Worker, December 12,1936.
“I’m sorry it had to be like that”: Baltimore Afro-American, December 19,1936.
“What a superb job Joe, Jack and you have done”: Letter, Walter White to John Rox-borough, December 17,1936, NAACP Papers, Library of Congress.
“knocked one more nail in the coffin”: Daily Worker, December 20,1936.
“Whether you like Hitler or the Nazis or Germans or spinach”: New York Sun, September 24,1936.
Chapter Nine: A German Commodity
“an unprecedented event in the annals of Detroit”: Life, June 17,1940.
“the greatest money-making athlete”: New York Evening Journal, December 21,1936.
“Nordic” boxing powers decided against title shot: Chicago Defender, January 16,1937.
“tranquil progress”: Commentator, February 1937.
“a long, long way”: Letter, Walter White to Lowell Thomas, January 29,1937, NAACP Papers, Library of Congress.
“the stench of the old slave market”: Daily Worker, February 1,1937.
“That bust on the chin Max gave Louis”: New York American, January 26,1937.
“all records for retreating since Napoleon”: New York Mirror, January 30,1937.
“The legend of ‘American sportsmanship’”: Amsterdam News, February 6,1937.
“Thank God! I’ve seen him at last”: Baltimore Afro-American, February 27,1937.
“They say I can’t take a punch”: Los Angeles Times, April 2,1937.
“a penny a throw”: New York Evening Journal, April 2,1937.
“the brown wizard of Galveston”: Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening Journal, January 6, 1939.
“a hundred dollars to five”: Boxing News, September 1937.
“His clean living and high-minded morals”: Chicago Defender, May 1,1937.
“Patriotic American”: Letter, May 16, 1933, in Papers of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Butler Library, Columbia University.
“make all others seem pale and pointless by contrast”: New York Evening Journal, January 9, 1937.
“which he willingly or unwillingly represents”: Anti-Nazi Economic Bulletin, February 1937.
“Why should Americans boycott the Schmeling-Braddock fight?”: New York Daily News, January 12,1937.
“God help the Jews in Germany”: Ibid., January 23,1937.
“almost stupid beyond belief boycott”: Letter, Citizens Protective League to the NAACP, January 12,1937, NAACP Papers, Library of Congress.
“Must we allow these most loathsome and despicable”: Letter, undated, Papers of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, Columbia University.
“is forced to be a Nazi if he doesn’t want”: Boston Post, January 11,1937.
“one of the most hated organizations”: Letter, Samuel Untermyer to J. G. Fredman, January 12, 1937, Papers of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, Columbia University.
“Schmeling might just as well remain in Germany”: New Orleans Times-Picayune, January 12,1937.
“Even without the aid of any other organizations”: Minneapolis Journal, January 10, 1937.
“easy-going Max”: Jewish Examiner, January 15,1937.
“People tell stories about Schmeling ‘Heiling Hitler’”: Jewish Advocate, January 12, 1937.
“leaped at the excuse like a speckled trout”: New York Herald Tribune, January 10, 1937.
“draw flies”: New York Mirror, January 9,1937.
“I want to be fair to Schmeling”: Chicago Tribune, February 1,1937.
“anti-Nazi front men”: Bang, January 16,1937.
“There is a powerful aroma of larceny”: Boston Globe, January 12,1937.
“We don’t owe the Horst Wessel muzzler”: New York Daily News, January 10,1937.
“akin to boycotting smallpox”: New York World-Telegram, January 18,1937.
“Hitler’s boyfriend”; “Storm Trooper Moxie”; “Hitler’s emissary to America”: Daily Worker, March 7,1937.
“He should have known”: Ibid., January 17,1937.
SCHMELING HECKLED IN UNBELIEVABLE WAY: New York Herald Tribune, January 9, 1937.
“racially conscious Americans”: New York Herald Tribune, January 10,1937.
IF YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN: Angriff, January 10,1937.
“traditions of fairness”: New York Times, January 10,1937.
“100 per cent Americans”: American Israelite, January 21,1937.
“the Hitler-Heiling Joe Jacobs”: Anti-Nazi Economic Bulletin, March 1937.
“Schmeling is a hero”: Daily Worker, February 17,1937.
BOYCOTT BROKEN!: Völkischer Beobachter, January 20,1937.
“The Jews don’t help us”: Crisis, February 1936.
“Negro-Jew-Catholic-hating Nazis”: Amsterdam News, January 16,1937.
“Maybe they have some Negro servant”: Ibid.
“certain individuals in the boxing game”: Letter, Walter White to Bill Nunn, February 19,1937, NAACP Papers, Library of Congress.
“promotional stooge”: Chicago Tribune, June 22,1937.
“Why should Jim, who was on relief for years”: New York Evening Journal, February 22, 1937.
“a clique that has nothing to do with sports”: Box-Sport, February 22,1937.
“It is understood that Chancellor Hitler”: Memo, Douglas Jenkins, American consul general in Berlin, February 1,1937, to secretary of state, State Department Archives.
“This fight will be the greatest sporting event of the year 1937”: Herman Esser to Hans Heinrich Lammers, February 10,1937, in Bundesarchiv, BA Rk43 II/810a.
“This still needs to be discussed with Göring”: Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, T.I, Bd.3/II, February 27,1937, p. 395.
“You know, they do me an honor”: Associated Press, March 2,1937.
“ghost battle”: Daily Worker, March 3,1937.
“chamber of horrors”; “brown-shirted fanatic”: New York Daily News, March 4,1937.
“shameless Jew lout”; “New York’s chief gangster”: Ibid., March 5,1937.
“a dwarf with a grotesque belly”: Ibid., March 6,1937.
“un-American city in the country”; “Jews-York”: Berliner illustrierte Nachtausgabe, March 5,1937.
“No less than three million members of this race”: Fränkische Tageszeitung, March 5, 1937.
“a product of the lower east-side of New York”: Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter, March 11,1937.
“real culture”: quoted in New York Herald Tribune, March 6,1937.
“All posts are requested not to diminish vigilance”: Jewish Veteran, March 1937.
“since in American boxing the Jews play a great role”: Bohrmann (ed.), NS–Presseanweisungen der Vorkriegszeit, Bd.5/I:1937: March 12,1937.
“the most boot-licking contract ever advanced”: Daily Worker, March 14,1937.
“What else?”: Washington Post, February 10,1938.
“Joe Louis is colored”: Baltimore Afro-American, March 27,1937.
“the sports pages are for sports”: Bang, May 29,1937.
“The Führer doesn’t want soft mamma’s boys”: 12 Uhr-Blatt, April 20,1937.
“the wonderful style of his victory over
Louis”: Berliner Zeitung am Mittag, April 16, 1937.
“Max Schmeling has long”: Box-Sport, April 19,1937.
“storms of applause”: Angriff, April 17,1937.
“Braddock is a coward, and continually searching for new excuses”: Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, T.I, Bd.4: März–November 1937, April 13,1937, p. 93.
“I’m not going to sacrifice”: Boston Post, June 21,1937.
“a longshoreman who proudly carries”: Daily Worker, May 18, June 20 and 21,1937.
“Braddock looks upon Louis”: Associated Negro Press, May 7,1937.
“If the heavyweight champion can’t protect himself”: New York Sun, June 8,1937.
“The ugly monster of race prejudice”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, May 15,1937.
“journey into the unknown”: Box-Sport, May 4,1937.
“I’ve told you again and again”: Berliner Zeitung am Mittag, May 25,1937.
“the shadow-boxing championship of the universe”: New York Mirror, May 11,1937.
“Evidently Max is trying to fathom”: New York Herald Tribune, May 19,1937.
“If I make excuses this time”: Boston Traveler, June 18,1938.
“a fair indication”: New York Herald Tribune, June 2,1937.
“mediocre boxer”: New York Daily News, May 29,1937.
“Kid Ghost”: Daily Worker, June 3,1937.
broadcast going “ghost to ghost”: New York American, June 3,1937.
“If the sports injustice”: Box-Sport, June 1,1937.
“With the Führer this afternoon”: Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, T.I, Bd.4, May 27,1937, p. 153.
“This fight for the fight has maybe been harder”: Arno Hellmis radio interview with Max Schmeling and Max Machon, recorded on June 2, 1937, at the NBC Studios at Rockefeller Center, New York, for shortwave transmission to Germany. Museum of Television and Radio, New York, Program No. A 593.
“the most popular man in America”: Völkischer Beobachter, June 3,1937.
“a singular song of praise”: Hellmis, Max Schmeling:, p. 6.
“a block of wood”: Ibid., p. 89.
“The greatest injustice”: 12 Uhr-Blatt, June 3,1937.
“We set our date last winter”: New York American, May 25,1937.
“the most titanic farce”: New York Herald Tribune, June 4,1937.
“This here business is sorta nutty”: New York Evening Journal, June 4,1937.
“the consummation of as complete”: New York Sun, June 4,1937.
“phantom manager”: New York Mirror, May 25,1937.
“Bitterness is strictly a new act”: Wichita Beacon, June 5,1937.
“Who cares about being suspended?”: New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, June 4,1937. “What is the decision—noddings!”: Newark Star-Eagle, June 4, 1937. “They make a joke of the title”: New York Herald Tribune, June 4, 1937. “It’s all my fault”: Milwaukee Journal, June 4,1937.
“The sense of justice in every civilized man”: New York Sun, June 5,1937.
“Severe diarrhea?” 8 Uhr-Blatt, June 4,1937.
“the Mt. Everest of all dudgeons”: New York Sun, June 25,1937.
“Schmeling being given the run-around by Braddock”: Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, T.I, Bd.4, June 5,1937, p. 169.
“must continue to write in the sharpest manner”: Bohrmann (ed.), NS-Presseanweisungen der Vorkriegszeit, Bd.5/I:1937: June 7,1937.
“seduced from the path of contract duty”: Madison Square Garden Corporation v. Braddock, 90 F. 2d 924, 929 (1937).
“world championship of the old world”: Franz Metzner to Hauptmann Wiedmann, June 7,1937, in Bundesarchiv, BA NS 10/538.
“the greatest interest”: Ibid.
“as a counterweight against the American methods of deception”: Metzner to District Finance Office, June 7,1937, in Bundesarchiv, BA R 1501/5099.
“The incredible enthusiasm with which the fair Englishmen”: Berliner Zeitung am Mittag, June 17,1937.
“moral” world champion: Box-Sport, June 15,1937.
“the arrogant monopoly”: Franz Metzner to Falony et al., June 23, 1937, in Bundesarchiv, BA R 1501/5098.
“The European front of unity against American gangsterism”: Metzner to Tscham-mer, July 1,1937, in Bundesarchiv, BA R 1501/5101.
“You can bet all the tea in China he is”: New York World-Telegram, June 18,1937.
Chapter Ten: Banishing Jack Johnson’s Ghost
“Joe Louis was a great fighter”: New York Sun, June 17,1937.
“living argument against the hypocrisy”: Amsterdam News, June 12,1937.
“just a cheap and sleazy road company”: New York Daily News, June 15,1937.
“will ever be able to pound anything”: Ibid., June 22,1937.
“going the way of nearly all negro gladiators”: Collyer’s Eye, June 5,1937.
“This is Joe’s first romance”: Amsterdam News, March 6,1937.
“I can think of a million things wrong”: New York Daily News, June 22,1937.
“Youth, speed, strength, reflexes”: New York Sun, June 22,1937.
“One guy is getting old”: New York American, May 19,1937.
“mild contusions and abrasions”: quoted in Amsterdam News, February 13,1937.
“there should be a minimum of exultation”: Baltimore Afro-American, June 19,1937.
“might be taken in its stride”: Baltimore Afro-American, June 19,1937.
“Louis will be the last colored man”: Baltimore Afro-American, June 19,1937.
“Race pride is one thing”: Long Island Review, undated, in L. S. Alexander Gumby Collection on the American Negro, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Butler Library, Columbia University.
“a white man can say a lot more”: Houston Informer, June 23,1937.
“Red,” “Lefty,” “Good Time Charley,” “One-Eye”: Daily Express (London), June 23, 1937.
“Chicago is one of those places”: New York American, June 23,1937.
“Why pay $27.50”: New York World-Telegram, June 24,1937.
“They ain’t educated”: New York Evening Journal, June 21,1937.
“Black and White Sox Park”: New York World-Telegram, June 22,1937.
“and among all of these you find”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, June 26,1937.
“Joe Louis Special”: Houston Informer, June 8 and 19,1937.
“Germany isn’t interested”: New York Herald Tribune, June 22,1937.
“The outcome of the fight”: Bohrmann (ed.), NS-Presseanweisungen der Vorkriegszeit, Bd.5/I:1937, June 22,1937.
“a primitive man, a boxing machine”: Box-Sport, June 22,1937.
“Gee, Joe, you sure are light for this fight”: New York American, June 23,1937.
“There is no legend of world domination”: Chicago Tribune, June 22,1937.
“armed to the molars”: New York World-Telegram, June 22,1937.
“completely alabastered”: Boston Post, June 23,1937.
“widely known mortician”: Associated Negro Press, July 3,1937.
“a sheepish-faced boy in a long bathrobe”: Chicago Daily News, June 23,1937.
“Chappie, this is it”: Nagler, Brown Bomber, p. 73.
“Every man, woman and child”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, June 26,1937.
“You throw that towel in there”: New York Mirror, March 30,1938.
“Braddock fought a more relentless foe”: Chicago Tribune, June 23,1937.
“Get your hands up, Jimmy!”: New York World-Telegram, June 23,1937.
“in a halo of gleaming particles”: Philadelphia Tribune, June 30,1938.
“Braddock went over stiffly”: New York Mirror, June 23,1937.
“Get up, Jim!”: Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 23,1937.
“Chappie! Chappie! Let’s cut the title in two and celebrate!”: Associated Press, June 23,1937.
“Ol’ glove, you shoa had dynamite in you tonight”: New York Evening Journal, June 23, 1937.
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sp; “I guess them years jes’ crept up on him”; “Nice to be young, ain’t it?”: Associated Press, June 23,1937.
“It don’t feel no different”: New York Sun, June 24,1937.
“the fightingest champion there ever was”: Louisville Times, June 23,1937.
“Just give me one more shot at that Schmeling”: Atlanta Daily World, June 17,1938.
“I guess the poor guy hasn’t come to”: New York World-Telegram, June 24,1937.
“Swirling, careening, madly dashing”: Pittsburgh Courier, June 26,1937.
I TOLD YOU SO: Chicago Defender, June 26,1937.
“They threw that party”: Chicago Tribune, June 23,1937.
“His right really was pretty good”: Chicago Herald & Examiner, June 24,1937.
“One moment there wasn’t nobody”: New York World-Telegram, June 23,1937.
“We want Schmeling!”; “We want the Nazi man!”: Daily Worker, June 24,1937.
“How do you like that, white man?”: New York Sun, June 23,1937.
“One thousand policemen fingered clubs”: Daily Worker, June 23,1937.
“kayoed the same barrier of discrimination”: Ibid., June 27,1937.
“darktown Baltimore”; “Christmas Eve in darkest Africa”: Alistair Cooke, One Man’s America, (New York: Knopf, 1952), p. 73.
“a tumult of joyous celebration”: Russell Baker, Growing Up (New York: Congdon & Weed, 1982), pp. 203–6.
“wildly happy with the greatest celebration”: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 23.
“I guess the better man won”: Boxing News, June 1937.
“The cynical philosopher”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, June 26,1937.
“into the brightest limelight”: California Eagle, June 25,1937.
“If this same Joe Louis”: Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City), July 3,1937.
“That letter should have been sent”: New York Age, July 3,1937.
“flat-footed nigger”: Box 55, Folder 20 in NBC papers, Wisconsin Historical Society.
“England trembles every time”: Baltimore Afro-American, July 10,1937.
“Negro entertainment in a theater for white persons”: Pittsburgh Courier, July 3,1937.
“utter lack of restraint”: Durham (North Carolina) Sun, June 23,1937.
“Driven by jealousy and the ‘Can’t Take It’ mood”: Louisiana Weekly, July 3,1937.
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