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12-28-2018, 02:02 PM
Post: #211
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Warren nailed it. Tarbell wrote a feature on Eleanor for the Delineator magazine when Franklin was running for president.

The 2018 prize budget was blown on research costs, so there is no prize, other than a laurel and hardy handshake.

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12-28-2018, 04:07 PM
Post: #212
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
That was pure luck, but your gift is greatly appreciated, and in return, I offer you a hearty handclasp (From W.C Fields, The Bank *****)
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01-01-2019, 02:05 PM
Post: #213
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
I think this one might go a while. Tarbell wrote a series of flattering articles about Benito Mussolini for McCall's Magazine in the 1920s. A few years later she declined to interview Adolf Hitler. My question is this. What early 20th century revolutionary called Tarbell "Aunt Ida."

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

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01-01-2019, 02:25 PM
Post: #214
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
The bit about Mussolini, has me fearing it could be someone dark and sinister, say like a Trotsky type. But I'm going to guess more on side of light and goodness (ie. non-dictatorial) and say, Francisco Madero?
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01-01-2019, 02:59 PM
Post: #215
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Steve,

Yours is an excellent guess, but incorrect. Thanks for introducing me to someone I was unfamiliar with before this.

One note. Tarbell, like several other American Progressives, saw in Mussolini a positive figure who used the power of the state to improve the life of his people. While I can't say that Tarbell completely lost her admiration for the pre-war Mussolini, I think her eyes were opened to the dangers of fascism with the rise of Hitler, which is, in my opinion, why she declined to interview him.

The best study of this phenomenon is John Patrick Diggins Mussolini and Fascism: The View From America.

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01-01-2019, 04:58 PM
Post: #216
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Eugen V. Debs
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01-01-2019, 05:19 PM
Post: #217
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Good guess Bill, but it's not Debs.

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01-01-2019, 05:54 PM
Post: #218
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Karl Marx
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01-01-2019, 06:22 PM
Post: #219
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Sorry Anita. That's an interesting thought, but it isn't Marx.

Clue. This person and Tarbell briefly worked together.

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01-01-2019, 06:22 PM
Post: #220
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I have no idea - Vladimir Lenin?
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01-01-2019, 06:23 PM
Post: #221
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Not Lenin Roger.

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01-01-2019, 06:36 PM
Post: #222
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Bill Haywood?
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01-01-2019, 06:47 PM
Post: #223
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It wasn't Bill Haywood.

I'll give another clue. Even though this person briefly worked with Tarbell, they were much closer to Lincoln Steffens.

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01-01-2019, 06:58 PM
Post: #224
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Mother Jones?
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01-01-2019, 07:17 PM
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Victoriano Huerta?
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