Word: minerva
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Died. Ida Minerva Tarbell, 86, crusading journalist, onetime "Terror of the Trusts" (The History of the Standard Oil Company); of pneumonia; in Bridge port, Conn. Daughter of a Pennsylvania oilman driven to the wall by the Rocke fellers, onetime seminary teacher Ida Tarbell gained fame for herself and thousands of new readers for McClure's with her 1896 serialized Life of Lincoln. In 1902-04 she helped bust the oil trust with a series of 19 McClure's articles; they brought in a gusher of public resentment that flowed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which...
...trifle too much talk in the second act. The times are in the traditional Rodgers and Hart pattern, but not so repetitions as they have been in the past. "Nobody's Heart Belongs to Mc" is a fine and mellow torch number; "The Gateway of the Temple of Minerva" is a hot boogic woogie special. And "Careless Rhapsody" is another song you'll be whistling soon...
...Revel Syndicate, a literary agency, he received manuscripts (at a "marketing fee" of $4 to $7), praised them, shelved them for 30 days. As one of four presses (the Minerva, the Prometheus, the Pegasus, the Psychology), he then described himself as nibbling; and shelved the manuscript for another 30 days. At that point the house of Fortuny was foaming to print and sell the book, if only the author would come across with "part of" the manufacturing costs. The Fortuny contract promised the author 20% royalties on the first 3,000 copies sold, 50% thereafter. For some, there were extras...
Bright particular star of that demagogy-by-document which Roosevelt I called muckraking was Ida Minerva Tarbell. She had been brought up in the Pennsylvania oil fields when the fight between Standard Oil and the independents was hottest. Her father and brother were oil men whom Rockefeller had pushed to the wall. Miss Tarbell proved a terrible avenger. Her History of the Standard Oil Company, a perfervid, superbly documented indictment of oil-trust machinations, brought in a gusher of popular ill will which still bubbles up from time to time in anti-Rockefeller sentiment...
Divorced. John J. Raskob Jr., 33, son of the former Democratic National Chair man ; from Minerva Aaronson Raskob, 29, former New Haven typist whom he mar ried while at Yale; after nine and a half years of marriage; in Reno...