Journalist Ida Tarbell

Ida Tarbell

Living place: Pennsylvania

Birthday: 5-11-1857

Global rank: #34521

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Who is Journalist Ida Tarbell?
Her series of revelations about her company Standard Oil led to the Supreme Court's decision to break up the company.
She dug into the mass of Rockefeller business records, news reports and court papers to find out what fair methods they used in their ascent.
 
 

Young / Before famous

One of the only women in her class to graduate from Allegeny College, she carried an I-against-the-world spirit of McClure magazine, where she began investigating big business.

Family life info

Born into an oil family among the rigs in northwestern Pennsylvania and helped her make sense of the Rockefellers' business dealings.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Journalist Ida Tarbell?
President Theodore Roosevelt would later endorse his generation's brand of investigative reporting known as muckraking.

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When was Journalist Ida Tarbell born?
Ida Tarbell was born in 5-11-1857, death year is , at the age of 167.
Where is Journalist Ida Tarbell's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Ida Tarbell was born in Pennsylvania, . is a Journalist, whose Zodiac is Scorpius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Ida Tarbell's global rank is 34521 and whose rank is 114 in list of famous Journalist.
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Events in 1857 and 5-11

Birthday Ida Tarbell (5-11) in history

  • Day 5-11 year 1605: The "Gunpowder plot" of a group of Catholics to assassinate King James I by blowing up the British Parliament has failed.
  • Day 5-11 year 1872: Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the presidential election (she was trying to vote for President Grant).
  • Day 5-11 year 1895: George B. Selden of Rochester, N.Y., received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
  • Day 5-11 year 1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office when he defeated Wendell L. Willkie.
  • Day 5-11 year 1968: The first black woman representative to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm, was elected.
  • Day 5-11 year 1974: Ella T. Grasso became the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
  • Day 5-11 year 1989: Pianist Vladimir Horowitz died in New York at age 85.
  • Day 5-11 year 1994: At 45, George Foreman, became the oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.
  • Day 5-11 year 2011: Former Penn State defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, is arrested on charges of 40 counts of sexual abuse over a 15-year period.
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