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Tough Tarbell Trivia
07-07-2013, 09:35 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Next clue:

Other authors who contributed to this series included Allan Nevins.

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Abraham Lincoln is 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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07-07-2013, 09:53 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Next clue:

This book was published (finally) in 1936.

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Abraham Lincoln is 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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07-08-2013, 05:11 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
The Nationalizing of Business, 1878-1898?
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07-08-2013, 07:59 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
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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Abraham Lincoln is 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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07-11-2013, 03:01 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
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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Abraham Lincoln is 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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07-11-2013, 04:09 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
I have no idea whatsoever - Adolf Hitler?
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07-11-2013, 04:17 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
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.

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Abraham Lincoln is 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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07-11-2013, 04:22 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Thanks. Usually, when I do get one of your questions right, it's after about 5 or 6 clues. This was pure luck.
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07-22-2013, 11:08 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
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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Abraham Lincoln is 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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07-22-2013, 05:12 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
First clue:

It concerned a German immigrant.

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Abraham Lincoln is 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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07-22-2013, 08:55 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Second clue:

This person's father served as a newspaper editor in Cincinnati.

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Abraham Lincoln is 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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07-23-2013, 05:16 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Herman Frasch?
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07-23-2013, 08:16 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
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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Abraham Lincoln is 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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07-23-2013, 08:24 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Eugene V Debbs charged with opposition to WW I
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07-23-2013, 11:31 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
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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Abraham Lincoln is 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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