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02-20-2022, 08:12 PM
Post: #286
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
A same publisher?
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02-20-2022, 10:53 PM
Post: #287
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Good try Steve, but that's not it either.
Best Rob 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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02-21-2022, 10:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-21-2022 10:19 AM by Rob Wick.)
Post: #288
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
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.
Best Rob 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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04-16-2022, 10:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-16-2022 10:30 PM by Rob Wick.)
Post: #289
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Time for another Sandburg Stumper.
No Googling, please. Of whom was Carl speaking when he wrote "he rattles the dry bones of Lincoln." Best Rob 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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04-17-2022, 03:49 AM
Post: #290
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Edgar Lee Masters?
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04-17-2022, 11:56 AM
Post: #291
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Very logical guess Roger, but it isn't Masters.
Clue: It is a writer. Best Rob 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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04-17-2022, 05:58 PM
Post: #292
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Emanuel Hertz ?
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04-17-2022, 07:25 PM
Post: #293
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Again, a very logical guess, but no Gene, it's not Hertz.
Best Rob 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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04-17-2022, 08:49 PM
Post: #294
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
James Randall?
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04-17-2022, 10:20 PM
Post: #295
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Was it William Herndon?
They have killed Papa dead |
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04-18-2022, 06:01 AM
Post: #296
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Sorry, but it's neither Randall nor Herndon.
Clue. He has been mentioned on this forum before. Best Rob 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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04-18-2022, 06:06 AM
Post: #297
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
David H Donald?
“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns |
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04-18-2022, 08:00 AM
Post: #298
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Sorry Mike, but it isn't Donald.
Clue. Sandburg said at one time he actually admired this person. Best Rob 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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04-18-2022, 03:28 PM
Post: #299
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Hmm ... Someone Sandburg dislikes and who presumably dislikes Sandburg?
Albert Beveridge |
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04-19-2022, 04:15 AM
Post: #300
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
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. Best Rob 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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