All posts tagged "railroads"
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2.7KBusiness and LaborIda Tarbell, Investigative Journalist, Takes Down John D. Rockefeller
In the 1930s, Ida Tarbell sat down at her mahogany desk in the sunny library of her Easton, Conn., farmhouse. She wrote...
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7.3KBusiness and LaborA.C. Gilbert, The Man Who Saved Christmas (and Invented the Erector Set)
In 1918, America was at war. The country needed to devote all of its industrial might to victory in Europe. A war...
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5.2KbostonBrahmin Anti-Semites Fight the Brandeis Nomination to the Supreme Court
Louis Brandeis didn’t become one of the greatest Supreme Court justices ever without a dogfight. The bitter battle over the Brandeis nomination...
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10.9KMassachusettsA. Philip Randolph, the Dean of the Civil Rights Movement
Of the thousands of people who go in and out of Boston’s Back Bay commuter rail station every day, how many pass...
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5.8KBusiness 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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8.7KBusiness and LaborBob Fogg Brings Aviation and Adventure to New Hampshire
“The Weirs” on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee, has been a popular summer resort since shortly after the last Ice Age, when the...
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