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...Question. Both Indiana-born, both graduates of what was then sleepy little DePauw University, Charles Austin Beard and Mary Ritter Beard got their first taste of industrialism together in Chicago, New York and London around the turn of the century. In and near the Beard and Ritter homes at Knightstown and Indianapolis, Ind., there had been no poverty, no slums, no violent strikes; the grapple and grab of business shocked the young couple into questions. In Chicago, with Clarence Darrow and Eugene Debs, they sought answers at the famed forum of Jane Addams' Hull House. In London they continued...
Born 64 years ago on a farm near Knightstown, Ind., wiry, white-haired, amiably skeptical Charles Beard looks like a shrewd Yankee farmer, is really a Hoosier schoolmaster. For the last 20 years he has lived in a big, grey, barnlike house, once a boys' school, on a Connecticut hilltop overlooking the Housatonic River. Part of each winter he usually spends in Washington, D. C., where he visits his good friends, Senator George Norris and Secretary Wallace, keeps a sharp eye on the latest fast moves of legislators. In summer he manages his two dairy farms, calls them...
...summer evening, when she was in her early teens, a stranger appeared at the gate of the family home in Knightstown, Ind. and asked if it were the home of John Lehmanowsky. On being informed that it was, he came through the gate, and was met by her father, who had hurried from his chair on the porch at the sound of the stranger's voice. The two embraced and cried, talking in French and giving every evidence of being friends long parted who had had no hope of meeting again. They talked most of the night...
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