A Study of Muck-raking in Four Popular MagazinesUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1921 |
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... Tarbell , a member of its editorial staff for several years . The idea of muckraking was an accidental one , accord- ing to Mr. McClure , who has said on this subject : It came from no formulated plan to attack existing insti- tutions ...
... Tarbell , a member of its editorial staff for several years . The idea of muckraking was an accidental one , accord- ing to Mr. McClure , who has said on this subject : It came from no formulated plan to attack existing insti- tutions ...
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... Tarbell in ob- taining material -- her other sources of information were records of Congressional investigations , of state investigations , and the testimony of Mr. Rockefeller , Mr. Archbold , and other officers of the company given ...
... Tarbell in ob- taining material -- her other sources of information were records of Congressional investigations , of state investigations , and the testimony of Mr. Rockefeller , Mr. Archbold , and other officers of the company given ...
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Lucy E. Rogers. Miss Tarbell had spent nearly three years on this work before the first chapter of it was printed . She had read and digested almost a library of material ... Tarbell was particularly well equipped for such an undertaking 3.
Lucy E. Rogers. Miss Tarbell had spent nearly three years on this work before the first chapter of it was printed . She had read and digested almost a library of material ... Tarbell was particularly well equipped for such an undertaking 3.
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... Tarbell , who has spent the greater part of two years in gathering and studying original materials for a history of the Standard Oil company , first gained prominence as author of a series of articles on the life of Lincoln , as ...
... Tarbell , who has spent the greater part of two years in gathering and studying original materials for a history of the Standard Oil company , first gained prominence as author of a series of articles on the life of Lincoln , as ...
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1906 Cosmopolitan Addicks Aldrich Alfred Henry Lewis American Magazine April Armour Baker vol Beef Trust Bucket Shop chapter Chicago corporation corruption COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE crime of Amalgamated criminal deals December describes discussed dollars editor's note Edwin Lefevre election entitled Everybody's Magazine Everybody's vol Everybody's vol.11 evils Express Monopoly facts February fight Finance Lawson Everybody's Flynt Frenzied Finance Lawson graft Henry H Ibid industry instalment interests investigation July June labor land Lincoln Steffens March McClure's Magazine McClure's vol methods millions Miss Tarbell monopoly muck muck-raking muckraking articles Norcross November October organization Owners of America pany Phillips political pool-room profit published railroads Ray Stannard Baker rebates refrigerator car Rockefeller Rogers Roosevelt Russell vol says Senate series of articles shows Sinclair Standard Oil company sugar tariff telephone tell things thousand tion Upton Sinclair vivid votes writer written York
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Page 11 - Capitalists, workingmen, politicians, citizens— all breaking the law or letting it be broken.
Page 11 - Too many of them so respect the laws that for some "error" or quibble they restore to office and liberty men convicted on evidence overwhelmingly convincing to common sense. The churches? We know of one, an ancient and wealthy establishment, which had to be compelled by a Tammany hold-over health officer to put its tenements in sanitary condition. The colleges? They do not understand. [There is no one left; none but all of us.