All posts tagged "Columbia"
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11.9KArts and LeisurePaul Robeson Moves To Enfield, Conn.
In 1941, the most famous black man in the world moved with his wife and son to a 12-room Colonial house in...
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6.7KBusiness and LaborJohn William Sterling, a Well-Respected Man With a Secret
John William Sterling was a corporate lawyer during the Gilded Age, a conservative, upper-class businessman, the kind of man the Kinks describe...
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13.0KBusiness and LaborAlfred Winslow Jones, The Unlikely Inventor of the Hedge Fund
Alfred Winslow Jones had been a spy, a sociologist, a magazine writer and a Communist before he invented the modern hedge fund...
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6.1K2MassachusettsCrystal Eastman Keeps Her Name, Doesn’t Do Housework
Crystal Eastman wanted to change the world for women and to change the way women lived in the world. For that, she...
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