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04-27-2013, 01:41 PM
Post: #136
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Wild guess based on personality and some beliefs: Woodrow Wilson?
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04-27-2013, 01:58 PM
Post: #137
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Actually, Laurie, Tarbell and Wilson were very good friends, so it's not him.
Next clue. This person never became president. Best Rob Abraham Lincoln in the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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04-27-2013, 02:00 PM
Post: #138
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
John D. Rockefeller seems too logical for a Tough Tarbell Trivia question, but I'll guess him.
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04-27-2013, 02:01 PM
Post: #139
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04-27-2013, 02:05 PM
Post: #140
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Roger,
Sorry, but it's not Rockefeller. Joe, Actually, Robert T. Lincoln admired Tarbell's writing on his father. He ranked it up there with Nicolay and Hay's biography. Best Rob Abraham Lincoln in the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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04-27-2013, 02:43 PM
Post: #141
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
John Hay?
"There are few subjects that ignite more casual, uninformed bigotry and condescension from elites in this nation more than Dixie - Jonah Goldberg" |
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04-27-2013, 02:56 PM
Post: #142
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Sorry Joe, it's not John Hay.
Best Rob Abraham Lincoln in the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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04-27-2013, 05:39 PM
Post: #143
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Next clue.
Although he didn't ever become president, he did serve in elective office. Best Rob Abraham Lincoln in the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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04-27-2013, 08:19 PM
Post: #144
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
William Jennings Bryan?
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04-28-2013, 09:30 AM
Post: #145
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
No Bill, it wasn't Bryan.
Next clue: Both Tarbell and this person wrote about Lincoln. Best Rob Abraham Lincoln in the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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04-28-2013, 10:03 AM
Post: #146
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Edgar Lee Masters?
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04-28-2013, 12:44 PM
Post: #147
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Sorry Roger, it isn't Masters.
next clue: He won the Pulitzer Prize for an earlier work. Best Rob Abraham Lincoln in the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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04-28-2013, 12:55 PM
Post: #148
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
One last guess:
Allan Nevins |
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04-28-2013, 01:53 PM
Post: #149
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Albert Beveridge
Tom |
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04-28-2013, 02:40 PM
Post: #150
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Tom got it right. It was Albert J. Beveridge. Somewhere in my papers I have a memorandum which Tarbell wrote to herself in which she is much harder on Beveridge, but I can't find it. As for Beveridge, he decried what he called the "Tarbellization" of Lincoln studies.
No prize for this one, although when I no longer need it, my coughing pillow can be lent to whomever else might need it. Best Rob Abraham Lincoln in the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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