He was offered a contract by the professional baseball team the St. Louis Cardinals to pitch, but declined.

He was a correspondent for Barron's Financial Weekly from 1934 to 1948 and wrote for the North American Newspaper Alliance and the Bell Syndicate.

"[3] The committee's purview included the perceived problem of steel cutbacks and unemployment in the auto industry.

[4] An unsuccessful candidate for election in 1952 (to the remainder of the unexpired Senate term), Moody lost to Republican Charles E. Potter in the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidential landslide.

[6] Moody married his first wife Mary Ann in 1930 and they had a son, Blair Jr.

They were divorced in 1940 and Blair Sr. married his second wife, Ruth, in 1941; the marriage lasted until his death in 1954.

[9] An elementary school in Taylor, Michigan, was named for Senator Blair Moody.

In 1941, Moody authored Boom or Bust, a book charting his post-World War II vision for American democracy.