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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 07-07-2013 09:35 AM
Next clue:
Other authors who contributed to this series included Allan Nevins.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 07-07-2013 09:53 PM
Next clue:
This book was published (finally) in 1936.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 07-08-2013 05:11 AM
The Nationalizing of Business, 1878-1898?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 07-08-2013 07:59 AM
Correct Roger.
Tarbell signed the contract in 1923 and hoped to get the book finished by 1925, but various things stood in her way. She finally delivered the manuscript in 1935 but it required a ton of work by series editor Arthur Schlesinger Sr., and wasn't actually published until 1936. Tarbell said it was probably her weakest book.
Schlesinger had a ton of patience.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 07-11-2013 03:01 PM
Tarbell interviewed several world leaders in her career, but when Liberty Magazine asked her to interview this person, she refused.
Who was it?
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 07-11-2013 04:09 PM
I have no idea whatsoever - Adolf Hitler?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 07-11-2013 04:17 PM
For someone who has no idea, you got it right Roger. In 1938, Liberty asked her to interview Hitler and she scrawled on top of the letter "No."
Her reason for not wanting to isn't spelled out, but I have to imagine that since in the 1920s she interviewed Mussolini (and received some criticism for finding him favorable) she decided she didn't want to take a chance.
Good job!
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 07-11-2013 04:22 PM
Thanks. Usually, when I do get one of your questions right, it's after about 5 or 6 clues. This was pure luck.
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 07-22-2013 11:08 AM
In 1917 Tarbell received a letter from a prosecutor in the southern Indiana town of Vincennes telling her she was being subpoenaed along with Robert Todd Lincoln and others for a criminal trial. Neither she nor RTL had to testify.
What was the trial about?
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 07-22-2013 05:12 PM
First clue:
It concerned a German immigrant.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 07-22-2013 08:55 PM
Second clue:
This person's father served as a newspaper editor in Cincinnati.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 07-23-2013 05:16 AM
Herman Frasch?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 07-23-2013 08:16 AM
Sorry Roger, but that's not it. Remember, the question is what was this person charged with.
Third clue (which will likely give it away):
History of the Wabash Valley.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Wild Bill - 07-23-2013 08:24 AM
Eugene V Debbs charged with opposition to WW I
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 07-23-2013 11:31 AM
That's a good guess, Bill, but it's not that.
Final clue:
The accused was named Dr. Wilhelm Von Knappe.
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Rob