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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beard's Last | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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