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- ↑ "Wessel Smitter, 59, Novelist, Succumbs". The New York Times . November 9, 1951. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ↑ "A Dramatic Novel of Industry; In "F. O. B. Detroit" Wessel Smitter Writes With Power of Men Pitted Against Economic Forces". The New York Times . November 6, 1938. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ↑ "Settlers in Alaska; ANOTHER MORNING". The New York Times . April 20, 1941. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
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