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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 12-28-2018 02:02 PM
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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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Warren - 12-28-2018 04:07 PM
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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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 01-01-2019 02:05 PM
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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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Steve - 01-01-2019 02:25 PM
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?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 01-01-2019 02:59 PM
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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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Wild Bill - 01-01-2019 04:58 PM
Eugen V. Debs
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 01-01-2019 05:19 PM
Good guess Bill, but it's not Debs.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Anita - 01-01-2019 05:54 PM
Karl Marx
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 01-01-2019 06:22 PM
Sorry Anita. That's an interesting thought, but it isn't Marx.
Clue. This person and Tarbell briefly worked together.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 01-01-2019 06:22 PM
I have no idea - Vladimir Lenin?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 01-01-2019 06:23 PM
Not Lenin Roger.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Steve - 01-01-2019 06:36 PM
Bill Haywood?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 01-01-2019 06:47 PM
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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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Steve - 01-01-2019 06:58 PM
Mother Jones?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 01-01-2019 07:17 PM
Victoriano Huerta?