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RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Steve - 02-20-2022 09:12 PM
A same publisher?
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 02-20-2022 11:53 PM
Good try Steve, but that's not it either.
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 02-21-2022 11:16 AM
I'm officially out of clues so I'm going to call this. The answer is that both wrote about John D. Rockefeller in a controversial way. Tarbell, of course, wrote the Standard Oil series, but Sandburg wrote about the 1910 UMW strike in Colorado. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, which was owned by Rockefeller, was the site of what came to be known as the Ludlow Massacre. Sandburg wrote in 1915 in the Chicago Daybook that Rockefeller had hired Ivy Lee, whom Sandburg referred to as "a paid liar" as a public relations expert. I heard this while listening to Ron Chernow's biography of Rockefeller.
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 04-16-2022 11:24 PM
Time for another Sandburg Stumper.
No Googling, please.
Of whom was Carl speaking when he wrote "he rattles the dry bones of Lincoln."
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - RJNorton - 04-17-2022 04:49 AM
Edgar Lee Masters?
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 04-17-2022 12:56 PM
Very logical guess Roger, but it isn't Masters.
Clue: It is a writer.
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Gene C - 04-17-2022 06:58 PM
Emanuel Hertz ?
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 04-17-2022 08:25 PM
Again, a very logical guess, but no Gene, it's not Hertz.
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Steve - 04-17-2022 09:49 PM
James Randall?
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - GustD45 - 04-17-2022 11:20 PM
Was it William Herndon?
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 04-18-2022 07:01 AM
Sorry, but it's neither Randall nor Herndon.
Clue. He has been mentioned on this forum before.
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - AussieMick - 04-18-2022 07:06 AM
David H Donald?
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 04-18-2022 09:00 AM
Sorry Mike, but it isn't Donald.
Clue. Sandburg said at one time he actually admired this person.
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Steve - 04-18-2022 04:28 PM
Hmm ... Someone Sandburg dislikes and who presumably dislikes Sandburg?
Albert Beveridge
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 04-19-2022 05:15 AM
Sorry it took me a while to get back here, but I decided to take a side trip to the hospital yesterday. I passed out at work. The doctors aren't sure why, but they ruled out my heart and kidneys. My blood pressure was low during the time I was there, but they couldn't say why. All in all, as W.C. Fields once said, I'd rather have been in Philadelphia.
But Steve got it. I got a bunch of letters from my researcher from the Library of Congress from the William Allen White collection, and in one of the letters from Sandburg to White, he mentions his dislike of Beveridge's book. Good job Steve.
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Rob