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Enoch Arnold Bennett, British journalist: "In criticism of U. S. book reviews I referred thus to U. S. Journalists George Jean Nathan and Henry Louis Mencken: 'These illustrious warriors are very readable. They are also violent, impudent, farcical, grotesque and intellectually unscrupulous. It is impossible that writers who "go on" with the pen as they do could reliably distinguish a good book or good play from a bad one. . . . I do not wish them death. I read them with gusto. They make me laugh.' "
John W. Anderson, attorney who organized the Ford Motor Co.: "I was called to the witness stand in the $34,000,000 Ford tax suit now in progress in Detroit. I told how I invested $5,000 which later mounted to several millions. I told about a certain night in 1913. Said I: 'On that particular night I arrived at Geneva, Switzerland. The children were there and we had dinner in our rooms. The cable [announcing Ford stock to be worth $500 a share] was handed to me. . . . I told Mrs. Anderson to put on her hat and we would go over and hear the band play. I bought a bottle of champagne. I toasted Mrs. Anderson. I toasted Mr. and Mrs. Ford. I toasted Mr. and Mrs. Couzens. I toasted the stockholders and I toasted the directors, and I think if a Ford had gone through the square that night I would have gone out and hugged it. I was very, very happy.'"