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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - AussieMick - 03-24-2024 04:16 PM
Did he have extra marital affairs before or after marriage, with men or women.
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Anita - 03-24-2024 04:18 PM
Her positive authentication of a collection of documents Wilma Frances Minor submitted to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly. It included 10 letters Wilma Frances Minor claimed had been written by Lincoln, 3 of which were to Ann Rutledge. The collection also contained 4 letters written by Ann Ann Rutledge.These were later proven forgeries.
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 03-24-2024 04:23 PM
Again, neither is correct.
I'm quickly running out of clues, so this will be the final one before I give up the answer.
WWLD?
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Steve - 03-24-2024 07:22 PM
Lincoln's opinions on then current political topics. Or what she thought Lincoln might do if he was currently President?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 03-24-2024 07:29 PM
You got it, Steve! Tarbell was often asked what Lincoln would think of current situations, and she would respond that she had no idea. She always told people they were asking the wrong question. Instead of asking what Lincoln would do, they should study how Lincoln made decisions. That would be the closest anyone could come to capturing Lincoln's viewpoint on events he had no knowledge of.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-17-2024 08:50 PM
In 1942, the federal government purchased plates used to print six of Tarbell's books. What was behind the government's purchase?
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Steve - 04-18-2024 02:41 AM
Based on the date, I'd guess it had nothing to do with Tarbell but with using it for war production materials.
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - STS Lincolnite - 04-18-2024 07:15 AM
My initial thought is the same as Steve's above.
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-18-2024 07:16 AM
Steve,
You are on the right track, but I am going to require a specific product to consider the answer to be correct. You'll see why later.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-18-2024 10:13 PM
Think about what printing plates were made of in Tarbell's time.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Steve - 04-19-2024 02:53 AM
Aluminum?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-19-2024 06:16 AM
This is one of those questions that I am just going to give the answer because I can't think of any other clues. The answer is the lead plates were being melted down to make cores for bullets. What makes this significant (at least to me) is that for a number of years in her early life Tarbell was a strong advocate for peace, however she wasn't upset that her work was symbolically being used for war. To be sure, this came after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but it still seems ironic to me.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 06-02-2024 12:17 PM
Who wrote to Tarbell, "I feel that somehow the real Lincoln has eluded the biographers. I wish I might dare to hope that I could interpret him. I have been so occupied with gathering facts I sometimes think I am farther from my real goal than I thought I was when I began."
Googling is permitted, although I can't imagine it will help. One free clue. It was not Carl Sandburg.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 06-02-2024 12:24 PM
Dale Carnegie?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 06-02-2024 01:50 PM
Sorry Roger, but it isn't Carnegie.
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Rob
The author has been mentioned here several times before.
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Rob