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by Birmingham, Stephen;


  Buckley, William F., 208–217, 221, 223, 225; estate, 217; memoranda, 213–215, 219; in Texas and Mexico, 210–212

  Buckley, William F., Jr., 214, 218–219; God and Man at Yale, 218, 219; McCarthy and His Enemies, 218

  Buckley family, 208–209, 217–221

  Buena Vista Hills, Calif., oil lands, 110, 113

  Busch, Carlota, 223

  Butler, James, 75–85, 242; family, 84–85; hones, 78–81; Papal honors, 84; philanthropies, 84–85; stores, 77–78, 82, 83

  Butler, James, Inc., 77–78, 82, 83

  Butler, James, 111, 85

  Butler, Mary Rorke (Mrs. James Butler), 78, 79, 84

  Butler, Mother Marie Joseph, 84, 242

  Butler family, 75–76

  Byers, Buckley, 6, 96, 98–99

  Byers, J. Frederic, 96–97

  Byers, Rosamund Murray (Mrs. Buckley Byers), 96, 98–99

  Byrne & McDonnell, 21, 56

  Cafritz, Gwendolyn, 146

  Cagney, James, 277

  Calvert, George, Lord Baltimore, 150

  Camden, S.C, 212, 219

  Camp Bird Mine, 144

  Canterbury School, 236, 238

  Cartier, Pierre, 14;

  Casa del Sole, Rome, Brady home, 189–191

  Cashel Palace Hotel, 192

  Catawba (corporation), 219

  Catholic Benevolent Legion, 32–33

  Catholic Big Sisters, 184, 247

  Catholic Center for the Blind, 248

  Catholic Church: Butler’s contributions, 84; charities, 247–248; Democratic Party contributions through, 248; divorce, revised ideas on, 286–287; finances, 248–249; Knights, orders of, 243–247; Ryan’s contributions, 153

  Catholic Orphan Society, 33

  Catholics: education, 235–242; German, 223; Italian, 223, 224; Know-Nothing Party against, 28–29; propaganda against, 69–70; Scandinavian, 223; in U.S., total, 277

  Catholics, Irish, 28, 222–224; clubs discriminating against, 232; newspaper references to, 226–228; prejudice against, 28–30, 39, 41, 43; superiority, feelings of, 223–224

  “Chester Place,” Los Angeles, Doheny estate, 105–107, 117, 132

  Chrysler, Walter, 192

  Chrysler Building, New York, 25

  Chrysler Corporation, 192

  Churchill, Randolph, 172

  Cleveland, Grover, 76, 108

  Clubs, Irish Catholics in, 232

  Coakley, Mavis, 96

  Cohan, George M., 277

  Cohasset, Mass., 185

  Collier, Baron, 67

  Collinge, Patricia, 277

  Commercial Cable Company, 139

  Comstock Lode, 135, 136, 138, 141

  Coniff, Frank, 278

  Considine, Bob, 278

  Consolidated Edison, 24, 36

  Consolidated Gas Company, 192

  Conti di Savoia, 195, 198

  Cooke, Terence Cardinal, 5, 230, 245–246

  Cooley, Richard, 208

  Cooley, Sheila McDonnell (Mrs. Richard Cooley), 208

  Coolidge, Calvin, 66, 118

  Cooper, Gary, 257

  Coughlin, Rev. Charles E., attack on Roosevelt, 193–195

  Cox, James M., 66

  Crabtree, Lotta, 277

  Crawford, Joan, 86

  Crews, Laura Hope, 183

  Crocker, Charles, 135

  Cudahy, Michael (the elder), 68–69

  Cudahy, Michael (the younger), 86

  Cuddihy, Anne Marie, 248

  Cuddihy, Arthur, 71

  Cuddihy, Betsy Ryan (Mrs. Bob Cuddihy, later Mrs. Godbee), 291–292, 294–295

  Cuddihy, Christopher, 295

  Cuddihy, Edith, 293

  Cuddihy, Emma Frances Bennett (Mrs. Robert J. Cuddihy), 67

  Cuddihy, Herbert Lester, 67, 71, 88, 91–93, 225, 290; and Cardinal Spellman, 91–92; and Literary Digest, 67, 73; marriage, 71

  Cuddihy, Herbert Lester, Jr., 285

  Cuddihy, John (Jack), 69, 73, 200–201

  Cuddihy, John Murray, 226, 257, 260, 295, 296

  Cuddihy, Julia Murray (Mrs. Herbert Lester Cuddihy), 46, 73, 88, 92, 94, 229, 231, 247, 248, 285; and Bob, her son, 289, 290, 293, 295–297; marriage, 71

  Cuddihy, Mary Jane, see MacGuire, Mary Jane Cuddihy

  Cuddihy, Mary Smiley (Mrs. Bob Cuddihy), 292, 294

  Cuddihy, Michael Elizabeth, 295

  Cuddihy, Paul, 71

  Cuddihy, Robert (Bob), 224, 288–295, 298; children, 292–298; death, 292–294, 298

  Cuddihy, Robert A., Jr. (Robbie), 295, 297–298

  Cuddihy, Robert Joseph, 63–74, 75, 86, 247, 297; apartment house, 1088 Park Avenue, 71; and Literary Digest, 63–67, 70–74

  Cuddihy, Sean, 29;, 297

  Cuddihy, Thomas M. (Tom), 239, 295–297

  Cuddihy family, 5–6, 46, 49, 58, 62, 75, 103, 149, 184, 200, 224, 228, 238, 239, 241, 247; in Ireland, 68–69; spelling of name, 68–69

  Curb Exchange, New York, 166, 176

  Curley, James, 30

  Current Opinion, 63

  Curtis, Charlotte, 226

  Cashing, Richard Cardinal, 246

  Cuyler, Cornelius C, 158

  Daniel, Clifton, 227

  Daniels, Josephus, 111–112

  Data Architects, Inc., 263–264, 269, 270

  Davies, Marion, 148

  Davis, Jesse, Jr., 96

  Davis, John W., 66

  Democratic National Committee, 168

  Democratic Party, 106, 153, 247; contributions to, through Church, 248; Dan Bradley in, 31; Irish in, 26, 28; Tammany Hall and, 30

  Denby, Edwin, 111–113

  De Sica, Vittorio, 246–247

  de Valera, Eamon, 247

  Dever, Joseph X., 278

  Diman, Rev. J. Hugh, 71–72, 236–238

  Direct (horse), 81

  Directum I (horse), 81

  Directum Kelly (horse), 81

  Doheny, Edward L, 104–115, 135, 147, 150, 210; Fall and, 107–109, 112–115, 128–129; in oil industry, 105; oil lands controlled, 112–115; in oil scandal investigation, 117–133; payment to Fall, 114–115, 120–122

  Doheny, Edward L., Jr., 110, 122, 131; money delivered to Fall, 114, 120, 125; murdered, 129

  Doheny, Estelle (Mrs. Edward L. Doheny), 106–107, 121, 125, 126, 128, 130–133, 153

  Doheny family, 149

  Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, 271

  Downey, Morton, 277

  Dragadze, Peter, 246

  Drew, John, 278

  Drumlish, Ireland, 8

  Dublin, McDonnell family in, 9

  DuCharme, Jerome, 96

  Duke, James, 152

  Dulles, John Foster, 204

  du Pont, T. Coleman, 169

  “East View Farm,” N.Y., Butler estate, 79, 83, 84

  Edison, Thomas A., 35, 38, 54, 89

  Edison Illuminating Company, 24, 25

  Edward VIII, King of England, as Prince of Wales, 139, 141

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 205–207

  Elk Hills, Calif., oil lands, 110, 113, 122, 123, 128, 132

  Empire City Racetrack, 79–80, 82

  Encyclopædia Britannica, 63

  Equitable Life Assurance Society, 153–156

  Esquire, 218

  Fair, Charles, 142

  Fair, James Gordon, 135, 141–142

  Fair, James Gordon, Jr., 142

  Fair, Theresa (Mrs. Hermann Odrichs), 142

  Fair, Theresa Rooney (Mrs. James Gordon Fair), 142

  Fair, Virginia (Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt), 142

  Fair family, 224

  Falaise de la Coudray, Marquis de la, 182

  Fall, Albert B., 107–109, 112–116, 127, 147; daughter, 114–115, 127, 129, 130; Doheny’s payment to, 114–115, 120–122; and oil lands, 112–116; in oil scandal investigation, 118–124, 128–132; as Secretary of the Interior, 109, 112, 115; as Senator, 108–109

  Fall, Mrs, Albert B., 115–116, 127, 129, 130

  Farrell, James A., 22, 59, 60, 99, 158

>   Farrell, Mrs. James A., 192

  Faulkner, Dawkins & Sullivan, 270

  Fay, Frank, 277

  Fifth Avenue, New York, green stripe painted on, 287–288

  Fink, George R., 96

  First Irish Families of America (F.I.F.’s), 22, 39, 182, 223, 224, 226, 230, 232, 233, 236, 238, 239, 247, 248, 281, 285

  Fish, Stuyvesant, 177

  Fitzgerald, Edward, 278

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 159, 223, 277, 279, 283

  Fitzgerald, Geraldine, 277

  Fitzgerald, John F. (“Honey Fitz”), 27n, 30, 185–186

  Fitzgerald, Pegeen, 278

  Flaherty, Joe, 278

  Flanigan, Carlota Busch (Mrs. John Flanigan), 223

  Flanigan, Horace, 223, 256

  Flanigan, John, 223

  Flanigan, Peter, 271, 274–275

  Fleischmann, Raoul, 278

  Flood, James, 137

  Flood, James (third generation), 142–143

  Flood, James C, 135–137

  Flood, Jennie, 137

  Flood family, 224

  Flynn, Errol, 5, 231

  Flynn, Maurice B. (“Lefty”), 281

  Ford, Anne (Mrs. Giancarlo Uzielli), 6, 257, 285

  Ford, Anne McDonnell (Mrs. Henry Ford II), 6, 9, 257–258, 266–267, 271, 284; divorce, 259, 272; marriage to Deane Johnson, 267; wedding, 94–99

  Ford, Benson, 96

  Ford, Charlotte (Mrs. Stavros Niarchos), 257, 258, 272, 285

  Ford, Edsel, 95, 97

  Ford, Henry, 96, 98

  Ford, Henry, 11, 95, 206, 256–258; divorce, 259, 272; and McDonnell & Company, 256–257; wedding, 94–99

  Ford, Josephine, 96

  Ford, William, 96

  Fordham University, 238–239, 262

  Forrestal, James V., 229

  Foundling Hospital, New York, 230, 247

  Friendly, Alfred, 146–147

  “Friendship,” Washington, McLean estate, 146

  Fulton, Rev. Justin D., 69–70

  Funk, Isaac Kauffman, 63–65, 70, 73, 74

  Funk & Wagnalls, 63–64, 67–68, 70, 73, 74

  Furlong, Monsignor Philip J., 293–294

  Gallagher, Archbishop Michael James, 194

  Garvan, Francis P., 190

  Garvan, Mabel Brady (Mrs. Francis P. Garvan), 190

  Gasparri, Cardinal, 190, 191

  Gates, John W. (“Bet-a-Million”), 155

  Georgetown Prep School, 51, 251

  Georgetown University, 92, 158, 238–239

  German Catholics, 223

  Germany, Knights of Malta in, 246

  Gillespie, Emma Cuddihy (Mrs. Kenrick Gillespie), 71

  Godbee, Betsy Ryan (Mrs. Lawrence Godbee, formerly Mrs. Bob Cuddihy), 291–292, 294–295

  Godbee, Lawrence, 292

  Goldman, Sachs, 176

  Goldwyn, Sam, 181, 183

  Goodwin, Claudine, 94

  Gordon, Rum, 285

  Goshen Mountain, Mass., 76

  Gotham Ball, 184, 229–232

  Gould, Jay, 139

  Goulding, Edmund, 183

  Grace, Joseph P., 192–193, 232

  Grace, Michael, 192, 197

  Grace, W. R., & Company, 192, 232, 271

  Grace, William Russell, 192, 232

  Grace family, 224, 232

  Grace National Bank, 192

  Grace Steamship Line, 192, 232

  Graham, Sir James, 13

  Grand Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, 243

  Grant, Ulysses S., Jr., 137

  Gray, Stella, 294

  “Great Elm,” Sharon, Conn., Buckley estate, 212, 217, 219, 220

  Greeley, Father Andrew M., 250

  Greenwich, Conn., 261–262

  Griffin, Adm. R. S., 113

  Grosse Ile, Quebec, 41

  Grosse Pointe, Mich., 258

  Guerin, Alice Cuddihy (Mrs. Thomas Guerin), 71

  Guild of the Infant Saviour, 247

  Gwyn, Quintin Jenny, 245

  Hamill, Pete, 278

  Hamilton, Alexander, 28

  “Harbor Hill,” Long Island, Mackay estate, 140–141, 196

  Harding, Warren G., 66, 111, 112, 119, 126; death, 117–118; election, 109; Fall and Doheny as friends, 109; investigation of his conduct, 118, 123; in oil lands case, 113, 115–116

  Harding, Mrs. Warren G., 117, 147

  Hargrove, Marion, 291

  Harper’s Bazaar, 220

  Harriman, E. H., 155

  Harris, Basil, 229

  Harris, Mrs. Basil, 248

  Harris, Basil, Jr., 233

  Harris, Charlotte McDonnell, 7, 96, 97, 184, 233, 272, 279, 285

  Harris, Heidi Vanderbilt (Mrs. Jones Harris), 285

  Harris, Jed, 285

  Harris, Jones, 285

  Hartigan, Monsignor, 239

  Harvard Business School, 262

  Harvard University, 43, 92, 235, 239

  Hawthorne, Rose, 68

  Hayden, Stone & Company, 175

  Hays, Will, 182, 184

  Hazard, Robert, 19

  Hearst, George, 143

  Hearst, William Randolph, 143

  Helmsley, Harry, 249

  Hennessy, Barbara McDonnell (Mrs. John F. Hennessy, Jr.), 98, 233

  Henri, Robert, 226

  Henri d’Orléans, 245

  Herbert, Victor, 277

  Hertz, John D., 179

  Hill, James J., 155

  Hill, Lord George, 28

  Hitz, William, 132

  Hoehling, Adolph A., 124

  Hogan, Frank J.: in Doheny’s trials, 122, 124–126, 131–132; in Fall’s trial, 128–131

  Hoguet, Robert Louis, 229

  Hoguet, Mrs. Robert Louis, 91, 229

  Hoguet family, 238

  Holy Cross University, 238–239

  Homestake mine, 143

  Hoover, Herbert, 66

  Hope Diamond, 145–146, 148

  Hopkins, Mark, 135

  Hughes, Charles Evans, 65, 164

  Humphrey, George, 205

  Hunrington, Collis P., 135

  Huntington, U.S.S., 110, 111

  Hyde, H. B., 153

  Hyde, James Hazen, 153–155

  “Inisfada,” Manhasset, Long Island, Brady estate, 192–194, 196–197

  Interborough Rapid Transit Company, 93

  Ireland: Butler family in, 76; Cuddihy family in, 68–69; independence, 44, 279; Knights of Malta in, 246; McDonnell family in, 8–10, 55–56; population, 10, 16; potato famine, 10–15; Revolution, Irish-Americans and, 247; speech, quality of, 225

  Irish: Americans of Irish descent, 277–283; in business and professions, 62; character, 26–28, 45, 250, 278–279, 282–283; charm, 277–279; drinking habits, 19–20, 279; immigration to U.S., 9, 16, 41–42; intellectual life, 249–251; Jews compared with, 26–27, 39, 44, 45, 62, 282; newspaper references to, 226–228; Paddy as name for, 19–20; in politics, 27–29; population in U.S., 28, 277; prejudice against, 41–45; as servants, 43–44, 224–225; in society, 39, 53, 59, 184–186, 222–233; in U.S. as immigrants, 16–21, 25–26

  Irish Catholics, see Catholics, Irish

  Israel, 44–45

  Italians, 223, 224

  Jamaica racetrack, 159, 167

  Jefferson, Thomas, 28

  Jesuits, 91, 190, 197, 198, 238

  Jews: clubs excluding, 232, 233; education, 235–236; intellectual life, 249–250; Irish compared with, 26–27, 39, 44, 45, 60, 282; newspaper references to, 227; philanthropies, 247; religion modified, 222–223; social position of, 41, 43, 59, 224; in U.S., population, 277; Zionism, 247

  Jockey club, New York, 79, 85

  Johnson, Anne Ford, see Ford, Anne McDonnell

  Johnson, Deane, 267, 271

  Juarez, Mexico, 82

  Junior Assemblies, 230, 231

  Kahn, Otto H., 173, 241

  Keller, Helen, 278

  Keller, Rev. James, 93

  Kelly, Cornelius F., 193, 232

  Kelly, Grace, Princess of Monac
o, 216, 232–233, 258

  Kelly, John B., will, 215–216

  Kennedy, Caroline, 241

  Kennedy, Edward M, 233

  Kennedy, Ethel Skakel (Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy), 223, 233

  Kennedy, Jacqueline, see Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

  Kennedy, John F., 97, 175, 179, 186, 229, 261, 277, 282

  Kennedy, Joseph P., 62, 97, 175–176, 178–186, 196, 229; in motion picture industry, 181–184; on Securities and Exchange Commission, 180–181

  Kennedy, Kathleen, 96, 184

  Kennedy, Robert F., 179, 223, 261

  Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald (Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy), 94, 184–186, 219–220, 222

  Kennedy, Rosemary, 186

  Kennedy family, 103–104, 171, 175, 184–186, 233–234, 238

  Kent School, 235

  Kilkenny, 68–69, 75–76

  Killeen, Monsignor George H., 50, 51, 92

  Kilquahanity House, Scotland, 296

  King Direct (horse), 81

  Kings County Democratic Party, 31

  Kings County Electric Light & Power Company, 24

  Kingston, N. Mex., 104

  Kirby, Rollin, 127

  Knapp, Harry K., 79

  Knickerbocker, Cholly, 96

  Knights of Columbus, 243, 244

  Knights of Malta, 36, 192, 243–247, 281

  Knights of St. Gregory, 36, 84, 192, 243

  Knights of the Grand Cross, 243

  Know-Nothing Party, 28–29

  Kuhn, Loeb & Company, 154, 173

  Lake Placid Gub, N.Y., 233

  Landon, Alfred M., 72

  Langhorne, Norah, 281

  Lannan, J. Patrick, 283

  Lash, Joseph P., 43

  Laurel Park, Md., racetrack, 82

  Lawford, Patricia Kennedy (Mrs. Peter Lawford), 233–234

  Leadville, Colo., 143

  Learsy, Carol Buckley (Mrs. Raymond Learsy), 208, 218, 220

  Lehman, Herbert H., 90

  Lehman Brothers, 176

  Lehman family, 59, 103

  Leopold 11, King of Belgium, 152

  Leviathan, 176

  Lewis, Tom, 107

  Lexow Committee, 34–35

  Libby, Willard, 205

  Liggett & Myers, 152

  Lindh, Harry, 270, 271

  Lindley, Dr. John, 12, 14

  Links Cub, New York, 232

  Library Digest, 63–67, 69–74; polls, 65–66, 71–73

  Loeb family, 59, 103

  London, Knights of Malta to, 246

  Lord, James Brown, 158

  Los Angeles, Doheny in, 104–106, 122, 127, 132–133

  Lowell, Ralph, 185–186

  Lufkin, Dan W., 233, 271

  Lufkin, Elgood M., 99

  Lufkin, Marie Murray (Mrs. John McDonnell, later Mrs. Elgood M. Lufkin), 46–47, 96, 99, 233, 271, 287

  Lybrand, Ross Brothers & Montgomery, 269

  Lynchburg, Va., 149–150

  MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, 204

  Macauley, William Babbington, 198, 199

 

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