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- ↑ Steele, Richard W. (1985). Propaganda in an Open Society: The Roosevelt Administration and the Media, 1933-1941. London, England: Greenwood Press. pp. 100–1.
- ↑ (3 April 1940). Felix Morley Named Head of Haverford, The New York Times
- ↑ "Felix Morley Backs Wilkie". The New York Times . September 9, 1940. p. 18.
- ↑ Gillian Peele, 'American Conservatism in Historical Perspective', in Crisis of Conservatism? The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement, & American Politics After Bush, Gillian Peele, Joel D. Aberbach (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, p.21
- ↑ Nash, Georg H. (1998). The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America, Since 1945 . Wilmington, Del: Intercollegiate Studies Institute. pp. 112. ISBN 1-882926-20-X.
