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6. Gibbons, “Cook, Frederick Albert.” See also Heckathorn, “Peary, Robert Edwin”; Henderson, “Who Discovered the North Pole?”; and Wally Herbert, “Commander Robert E. Peary: Did He Reach the Pole?” National Geographic, September 1988, p. 392.
7. Heckathorn, “Peary, Robert Edwin.” See also Henderson, “Who Discovered the North Pole?”; Herbert, “Commander Robert E. Peary,” p. 412; and “Peary and the North Pole 100 Years Ago Today.”
8. “Frederick A. Cook Society Collection.” See also Gibbons, “Cook, Frederick Albert”; Heckathorn, “Dr. Frederick Cook’s North Pole Claim”; Heckathorn, “Peary, Robert Edwin”; Henderson, “Who Discovered the North Pole?”; Herbert, “Commander Robert E. Peary,” pp. 399–400, 412; “The North Pole Conspiracy [television program],” Smithsonian Channel, 2010, http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/sc/web/show/137272/the-north-pole-conspiracy (accessed December 11, 2011); and Stevens-Garmon, “Finding Aid to the Archives of the Peary Arctic Club.”
9. Herbert L. Bridgman, “Peary,” reprinted from Natural History 20, no. 1 (1920): 11. See also Keene, “Bridgman, Herbert Lawrence”; Riesenberg et al., His Last Voyage, p. 47; and Stevens-Garmon, “Finding Aid to the Archives of the Peary Arctic Club.”
10. Heckathorn, “Dr. Frederick Cook’s North Pole Claim.” See also Herbert, “Commander Robert E. Peary,” p. 405; Keene, “Bridgman, Herbert Lawrence”; and “North Pole Conspiracy.”
11. Helen Bartlett Bridgman, Within My Horizon (Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1920), p. 179.
12. Heckathorn, “Peary, Robert Edwin.” See also Henderson, “Who Discovered the North Pole?”; Herbert, “Commander Robert E. Peary,” pp. 388–89, 398, 411–13; and “Peary and the North Pole 100 Years Ago Today.”
13. Herbert, “Commander Robert E. Peary,” pp. 387, 404, 410. See also “Peary and the North Pole 100 Years Ago Today.”
14. “Chronology of Frederick A. Cook and the Frederick A. Cook Society, 1865–1996,” Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program, 2010, http://library.osu.edu/sites/archives/polar/cook/cookchron.php (accessed September 21, 2010). See also Henderson, “Who Discovered the North Pole?”; Herbert, “Commander Robert E. Peary,” p. 412; “North Pole Conspiracy”; and “Peary and the North Pole 100 Years Ago Today.”
15. Bridgman, Within My Horizon, p. 184. See also Herbert, “Commander Robert E. Peary,” pp. 387, 390–91, 413.
16. Bridgman, “Ten Years of the Peary Arctic Club,” pp. 664–65. See also Gibbons, “Cook, Frederick Albert”; Heckathorn, “Peary, Robert Edwin”; and Herbert, “Commander Robert E. Peary,” pp. 392, 397, 399.
17. “His Last Voyage,” p. 14. See also “H. L. Bridgman’s Body Here,” p. 19; Riesenberg et al., His Last Voyage, p. 47; and Stevens-Garmon, “Finding Aid to the Archives of the Peary Arctic Club.”
18. Bridgman, “Ten Years of the Peary Arctic Club,” pp. 663, 667. See also Heckathorn, “Dr. Frederick Cook’s North Pole Claim”; Heckathorn, “Peary, Robert Edwin”; Herbert, “Commander Robert E. Peary,” pp. 390, 396, 399, 401, 412; and “North Pole Conspiracy.”
19. Herbert, “Commander Robert E. Peary,” pp. 388, 403.
20. Gibbons, “Cook, Frederick Albert.”
CHAPTER 24. THE CONSUMMATE GOLD DIGGER—PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE
1. Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Men, Marriage, and Me (New York: Macaulay Co., 1930), pp. 139–40, 145–49. See also Constance Rosenblum, Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce (New York: Owl Books, 2001), pp. 89–90, 206, and “Says Peggy Hopkins Cost Him $1,398,316,” New York Times, June 1, 1921, p. 13.
2. “Divorce for Joyce; $1,284,250 for Peggy,” New York Times, November 9, 1921, p. 13. See also Eve Golden, “Peggy Hopkins Joyce: The Gentleman-Preferred Blonde,” Films of the Golden Age 17 (Summer 1999): 28–32; “Peggy Hopkins Joyce Dies at 63; Showgirl of ’20’s Wed 6 Times,” New York Times, June 13, 1957, p. 31; Hopkins Joyce, Men, Marriage, and Me, p. 125; and Rosenblum, Gold Digger, pp. 2–3, 80, 83–85, 104, 133.
3. Golden, “Peggy Hopkins Joyce,” p. 30. See also “Peggy Hopkins Joyce Dies at 63,” p. 31, and Rosenblum, Gold Digger, pp. 2, 4–7, 252–53.
4. Hopkins Joyce, Men, Marriage, and Me, p. 14. See also Rosenblum, Gold Digger, p. 21.
5. Hopkins Joyce, Men, Marriage, and Me, p. 12.
6. Rosenblum, Gold Digger, pp. 24–25.
7. Ibid., pp. 28–30.
8. Hopkins Joyce, Men, Marriage, and Me, pp. 38, 40. See also Rosenblum, Gold Digger, p. 31.
9. Rosenblum, Gold Digger, pp. 44–47.
10. Ibid., pp. 46–50, 52, 54, 58.
11. Ibid., pp. 61, 64–69.
12. Hopkins Joyce, Men, Marriage, and Me, pp. 116–19, 122, 124–25. See also Rosenblum, Gold Digger, pp. 77–80, 88.
13. Rosenblum, Gold Digger, pp. 92, 94–101.
14. “Divorce for Joyce,” p. 13. See also “Peggy Hopkins Answers Joyce,” New York Times, June 8, 1921, p. 27; Samuel Marx, Wild Women of Broadway (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1929), pp. 7–9; Rosenblum, Gold Digger, pp. 96–101, 106–107, 112–14; and “Says Peggy Hopkins Cost Him,” p. 13.
15. Marx, Wild Women of Broadway, pp. 9–10. See also “Peggy Hopkins Joyce Dies at 63,” p. 31; Rosenblum, Gold Digger, pp. 91, 111; and “Says Peggy Hopkins Cost Him,” p. 13.
16. “Divorce for Joyce,” p. 13. See also Hopkins Joyce, Men, Marriage, and Me, p. 170; Marx, Wild Women of Broadway, pp. 6–7; and Rosenblum, Gold Digger, pp. 88–89, 107, 115.
17. Hopkins Joyce, Men, Marriage, and Me, p. 202. See also Rosenblum, Gold Digger, pp. 131–36.
18. Hopkins Joyce, Men, Marriage, and Me, pp. 206–10. See also Marx, Wild Women of Broadway, p, 11; “Peggy Joyce Weds a Swedish Count,” New York Times, June 4, 1924, p. 1; and “Sues Peggy Joyce to Void Marriage,” New York Times, July 30, 1924, p. 1.
19. Golden, “Peggy Hopkins Joyce,” pp. 30, 32. See also “Peggy Hopkins Joyce Dies at 63,” p. 31, and Rosenblum, Gold Digger, pp. 6, 153–54, 211–16.
20. Hopkins Joyce, Men, Marriage, and Me, p. 132. See also Rosenblum, Gold Digger, p. 86.
21. Hopkins Joyce, Men, Marriage, and Me, p. 89.
22. Golden, “Peggy Hopkins Joyce,” p. 30. See also Rosenblum, Gold Digger, pp. 3, 155–56, 191.
23. Hopkins Joyce, Men, Marriage, and Me, p. 148. See also “Joyce Will Is Filed,” New York Times, November 9, 1957, p. 12, and Rosenblum, Gold Digger, pp. 242–43.
24. Hopkins Joyce, Men, Marriage, and Me, pp. 196–97. See also Marx, Wild Women of Broadway, p. 9; “Peggy Joyce Home again from Paris,” New York Times, May 13, 1922, p. 24; Rosenblum, Gold Digger, p. 110; and “Says Peggy Hopkins Cost Him,” p. 13.
CHAPTER 25. THE MAD, SAD POET OF GREENWICH VILLAGE—MAXWELL BODENHEIM
1. Jim Burns, “Maxwell Bodenheim,” Penniless Press, http://www.pennilesspress.co.uk/prose/bodenheim.htm (accessed February 13, 2010). See also Allen Churchill, The Improper Bohemians: A Re-creation of Greenwich Village In Its Heyday (New York: Dutton, 1959), pp. 179, 293, 309–10, 322, 334; Deborah Hatheway, “Bodenheim, Maxwell,” American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-00140.html (accessed February 13, 2010); and Jack B. Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1970), pp. 7, 168.
2. Alan Bisbort, “Mad Max: Death of a Bohemian King,” Gadflyonline, April 22, 2001, http://www.gadflyonline.com/lastweek/bondenheimfeature.html (accessed February 13, 2010). See also “Bodenheim Asks Relief,” New York Times, March 5, 1935, p. 17; Burns, “Maxwell Bodenheim”; Churchill, Improper Bohemians, pp. 309, 318; Hatheway, “Bodenheim, Maxwell”; Peter Miller, “Naked on Roller Skates,” Freebird Books, February 2, 2010, http://www.freebirdbooks.com/2010/01/naked-on-roller-skates.html (accessed April 22, 2010); and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, pp. 14, 30–31.
3. Bisbort, “Mad Max.” See also Hatheway, “Bodenheim, Maxwell,” and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, pp. 13–16.
4. Bisbort, “Mad Max.” See also Burns, “Maxwell Bodenheim”; Hatheway, “Bodenheim, Maxwell�
�; and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, pp. 16–17.
5. Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, p. 20.
6. Ibid.
7. Bisbort, “Mad Max.” See also Churchill, Improper Bohemians, p. 310; Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century (New York: Primus, 1985), p. 223; Miller, “Naked on Roller Skates”; and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, p. 20.
8. Bisbort, “Mad Max.” See also Churchill, Improper Bohemians, p. 179, and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, pp. 18–19.
9. Hecht, Child of the Century, p. 331. See also Miller, “Naked on Roller Skates.”
10. Burns, “Maxwell Bodenheim.” See also Churchill, Improper Bohemians, p. 308; Miller, “Naked on Roller Skates”; and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, pp. 21, 30–31.
11. Churchill, Improper Bohemians, pp. 294, 298, 305–306.
12. “Bodenheim Cleared of Charges on Book,” New York Times, March 21, 1928, p. 28. See also “Book Called Evil; Publisher Indicted,” New York Times, July 1, 1925, p. 3; Churchill, Improper Bohemians, pp. 309–10; “Jury Frees Liveright in ‘Jessica’ Case,” New York Times, March 24, 1928, p. 30; and “T. R. Smith Is Cleared in ‘Jessica’ Trial,” New York Times, March 23, 1928, p. 14.
13. Bisbort, “Mad Max.” See also Burns, “Maxwell Bodenheim”; Churchill, Improper Bohemians, p. 311; “Keeps Missing Girl from Bodenheim,” New York Times, July 22, 1928, pp. 1, 9; and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, p. 109.
14. Bisbort, “Mad Max.” See also “Bodenheim Vanishes as Girl Takes Life,” New York Times, July 21, 1928, pp. 1, 7; Burns, “Maxwell Bodenheim”; Churchill, Improper Bohemians, pp. 311–13; and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, p. 109.
15. Bisbort, “Mad Max.” See also Burns, “Maxwell Bodenheim”; Churchill, Improper Bohemians, p. 317; and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, p. 109.
16. Bisbort, “Mad Max.” See also Burns, “Maxwell Bodenheim”; Churchill, Improper Bohemians, p. 317; and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, p. 109.
17. “Bodenheim Dropped in WPA Red Inquiry,” New York Times, August 2, 1940, p. 2. See also Burns, “Maxwell Bodenheim”; Hatheway, “Bodenheim, Maxwell”; Hecht, Child of the Century, p. 217; Roseann Reinemuth Hogan and Derek Agard, “WPA Telling Living History,” Ancestry Magazine, July/August 2005, http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=11101 (accessed February 13, 2010); and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, p. 158.
18. Hatheway, “Bodenheim, Maxwell.” See also Hecht, Child of the Century, p. 218.
19. Bisbort, “Mad Max.” See also Burns, “Maxwell Bodenheim”; Hatheway, “Bodenheim, Maxwell”; and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, pp. 169–70.
20. Bisbort, “Mad Max.” See also “Bodenheim Case Closed,” New York Times, April 8, 1954, p. 24; Burns, “Maxwell Bodenheim”; Churchill, Improper Bohemians, pp. 335–36; Miller, “Naked on Roller Skates”; Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, pp. 172–73; Emanuel Perlmutter, “Confession Cited in Poet’s Murder,” New York Times, February 11, 1954, p. 43; and Wayne Phillips, “Maxwell Bodenheim, Wife Slain in the Poet’s Dingy Bowery Room,” New York Times, February 8, 1954, p. 1.
21. Bisbort, “Mad Max.” See also Burns, “Maxwell Bodenheim”; Churchill, Improper Bohemians, pp. 180, 307, 309; Hatheway, “Bodenheim, Maxwell”; Miller, “Naked on Roller Skates”; and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, pp. 15, 30–31.
22. Bisbort, “Mad Max.” See also Burns, “Maxwell Bodenheim”; Miller, “Naked on Roller Skates”; and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, p. 33.
23. Maxwell Bodenheim, Minna and Myself (New York: Pagan Publishing Co., 1918), p. 42.
24. “Ben Hecht to Pay for Poet’s Burial,” New York Times, February 9, 1954, p. 13. See also Bisbort, “Mad Max”; Burns, “Maxwell Bodenheim”; and Moore, Maxwell Bodenheim, p. 173.
CHAPTER 26. THE BIFURCATED CONGRESSMAN—SAMUEL DICKSTEIN
1. Mark I. Gelfand, “McCormack, John,” American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/07/07-00343.html (accessed April 7, 2010). See also Walter Goodman, The Committee: The Extraordinary Career of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968), pp. 3, 10; “Justice Dickstein Dies at Age of 69,” New York Times, April 23, 1954, p. 27; “Records of the Select Committees of the House of Representatives,” National Archives, http://www.archives.gov/legislative/guide/house/chapter-22-select-propaganda.html (accessed May 4, 2010); and Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era (New York: Random House, 1999), pp. 141, 148–49.
2. “Dickstein Questions Nazi Camp Leaders,” New York Times, August 24, 1934, p. 6. See also Goodman, Committee, pp. 11–12; “Justice Dickstein Dies at Age of 69,” p. 27; and “Records of the Select Committees of the House of Representatives.”
3. “Vast Nazi Campaign in U.S. Is Charged,” New York Times, May 4, 1936, p. 11.
4. Goodman, Committee, pp. 10–12. See also “Justice Dickstein Dies at Age of 69,” p. 27; “Records of the Select Committees of the House of Representatives”; “Vast Nazi Campaign in U.S. Is Charged,” p. 11; and Weinstein and Vassiliev, Haunted Wood, p. 141.
5. Goodman, Committee, pp. 25–26, 36. See also Benedict Nightingale, “Mr. Euripides Goes to Washington,” New York Times, September 18, 1988, www.nytimes.com/1988/09/18/books/mr-euripides-goes-to-washington.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 (accessed May 10, 2010), and Kenneth O’Reilly, “Dies, Martin,” American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/07/07-00076.html (accessed February 13, 2010).
6. “Justice Dickstein Dies at Age of 69,” p. 27. See also Weinstein and Vassiliev, Haunted Wood, p. 141.
7. Weinstein and Vassiliev, Haunted Wood, pp. 140, 144, 147, 149.
8. Ibid., pp. 141–43.
9. Ibid., pp. 142–43.
10. Ibid., p. 147.
11. Ibid., pp. 148–49.
12. Ibid., pp. 144, 146, 149.
13. “House Un-American Activities Committee,” Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, 2003, www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/huac.htm (accessed May 5, 2010). See also Michael Mills, “Blacklist: A Different Look at the 1947 HUAC Hearings,” ModernTimes.com, http://moderntimes.com/blacklist (May 5, 2010), and Charlotte Pomerantz, ed., A Quarter-Century of Un-Americana, 1938–1963: A Tragico-Comical Memorabilia of HUAC, House Un-American Activities Committee (Chicago: Chicago Center, 1997), p. 5, 15–16.
14. Athan G. Theoharis and John Stuart Cox, The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988), p. 312. See also “House Un-American Activities Committee.”
15. Committee on Un-American Activities, This Is YOUR House Committee on Un-American Activities (Washington, DC: US House of Representatives, 1954), p. 1.
16. Patricia Donovan, “Real to Reel,” UB Reporter, August 23, 2012, http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/archive/2012_08_23/real_to_reel.html (accessed June 4, 2013). See also Mills, “Blacklist.”
17. Pomerantz, Quarter-Century of Un-Americana, p. 127.
18. Goodman, Committee, p. 3.
19. Ibid., p. 22. See also Pomerantz, Quarter-Century of Un-Americana, p. 15.
20. “Dickstein Left $2,500 Estate,” New York Times, May 12, 1954, p. 25. See also Goodman, Committee, p. 11, and “Justice Dickstein Dies at Age of 69,” p. 27.
21. “Dickstein Memorial Service,” New York Times, April 28, 1954, p. 54. See also “Justice Dickstein Dies at Age of 69,” p. 27.
22. Weinstein and Vassiliev, Haunted Wood, p. 149.
CHAPTER 27. THE FRUGAL COUNTERFEITER—EMERICH JUETTNER
1. St. Clair McKelway, “Old Eight Eighty,” part 1, New Yorker, August 27, 1949, p. 36. See also St. Clair McKelway, “Old Eight Eighty,” part 2, New Yorker, September 3, 1949, pp. 30, 33; St. Clair McKelway, “Old Eight Eighty,” part 3, New Yorker, September 10, 1949, p. 84; Joseph McNamara, ed., The Justice Story: True Tales of Murder, Mystery, Mayhem (New York: Bannon Multimedia Group, 2000), pp. 206–208; and “Snow, Fire Turn Up Elusive Suspect in 15-Year Crop of Bogus $1 Bills,” New York Times, January 15, 1948, pp. 1, 48.
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sp; 2. William Bryk, “Little Old Moneymaker,” New York Sun, February 16, 2005, http://www.nysun.com/on-the-town/little-old-moneymaker/9282 (accessed July 3, 2011). See also George Hagenauer et al., The Big Book of Little Criminals: 63 True Tales of the World’s Most Incompetent Jailbirds! (New York: Paradox Press, 1996), p. 86.
3. Bryk, “Little Old Moneymaker.” See also McKelway, “Old Eight Eighty,” part 1, p. 36; St. Clair McKelway, True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality (New York: Random House, 1951), pp. 215–16, 220, 234; McNamara, The Justice Story, pp. 206, 208; Philip H. Melanson with Peter F. Stevens, The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005), pp. 54–55; and “Snow, Fire Turn Up Elusive Suspect,” pp. 1, 48.
4. Mara Bovsun, “Finding ‘Mr. 880’: The Case of the $1 Counterfeit,” NYDailyNews.com, April 3, 2011, http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-04-03/news/29395968_1_secret-service-bill-apartment-building (accessed July 3, 2011). See also, Bryk, “Little Old Moneymaker”; McKelway, “Old Eight Eighty,” part 1, p. 36; McKelway, “Old Eight Eighty,” part 2, p. 33; McKelway, True Tales, pp. 216, 220, 228, 234; McNamara, Justice Story, p. 208; and “Snow, Fire Turn Up Elusive Suspect,” p. 48.
5. Bovsun, “Finding ‘Mr. 880.’” See also Bryk, “Little Old Moneymaker”; McKelway, “Old Eight Eighty,” part 1, p. 32; McKelway, “Old Eight Eighty,” part 2, pp. 30, 33; McKelway, True Tales, pp. 215–20, 230–32, 252–53; McNamara, Justice Story, pp. 204, 207; and “Snow, Fire Turn Up Elusive Suspect,” p. 48.
6. Bovsun, “Finding ‘Mr. 880.’” See also Bryk, “Little Old Moneymaker”; McKelway, “Old Eight Eighty,” part 1, p. 36; McKelway, True Tales, pp. 215–20, 231–33, 236, 252; McNamara, Justice Story, p. 205; and “Snow, Fire Turn Up Elusive Suspect,” p. 48.
