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Tough Tarbell Trivia
03-17-2022, 01:46 PM
Post: #541
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Sorry guys, but no.

Clue: It was said of this man (not by Tarbell), that he identified with Lincoln so strongly throughout his career, that he wouldn't think it a proper ending unless he was assassinated.

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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

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03-17-2022, 06:23 PM
Post: #542
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Actor Raymond Massey?
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03-17-2022, 07:21 PM
Post: #543
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Correct Steve. It was Raymond Massey. Tarbell made the comment in a letter she wrote to a fellow member of the Pen and Brush Club. Massey had told Tarbell that he would be happy to speak before the club in 1939. Tarbell met Massey during one of his Broadway performances of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." After watching the film at the White House, with Massey in the audience, FDR praised the movie and added concerning Lincoln "and just think, he wrote his own speeches."

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--Ida M. Tarbell

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03-18-2022, 05:07 AM
Post: #544
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
That was a neat question, Rob!
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09-26-2022, 09:27 PM
Post: #545
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
This one could be easy or not. Please, however, no Googling.

Who is the gentleman standing next to Tarbell (and no, I don't mean the Lincoln statue!).

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09-27-2022, 04:56 AM
Post: #546
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Rob, is it a person who has been previously mentioned on this forum?
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09-27-2022, 08:23 AM
Post: #547
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Roger,

To the best of my knowledge he has been mentioned a few times, but not often.

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--Ida M. Tarbell

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09-27-2022, 09:59 AM
Post: #548
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Albert J Beverage ?

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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09-27-2022, 10:34 AM (This post was last modified: 09-27-2022 10:44 AM by Steve.)
Post: #549
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Did he have any connection to the Roosevelt Administration?

I meant the FDR Administration.
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09-27-2022, 05:28 PM
Post: #550
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Gene,

Sorry, but it isn't Beveridge.

Steve, I don't know of any connection to FDR.

Clue#1. He isn't a historian in the classical sense.

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--Ida M. Tarbell

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09-27-2022, 06:36 PM
Post: #551
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
I do not remember ever seeing a photo of Emanuel Hertz; thus, I will guess him.
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09-27-2022, 10:33 PM
Post: #552
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Logical guess Roger, but incorrect.

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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

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09-28-2022, 08:27 AM
Post: #553
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Didnt she write a "biography" of a major company? (at risk of showing my ignorance here) and this could be the owner?

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Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
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09-28-2022, 09:05 AM
Post: #554
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Mike,

She did write biographies of Elbert Gary and Owen D. Young, but this is neither.

Clue#2. This person's child was as well-known as he was.
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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.
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09-28-2022, 11:32 AM
Post: #555
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Is this person known for their literary activities?

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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