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Harmon’s Histories: In final class, UM’s Toole warned of corporate greed, rapacious development
Harmon’s Histories: In final class, UM’s Toole warned of corporate greed, rapacious development
Harmon’s Histories: In final class, UM’s Toole warned of corporate greed, rapacious development
“There are, I think, undeniably, new winds sweeping across America. They are indeed gusty and changeable, but they are new - and they will alter what happens in Montana ... (either for) better or worse, (depending) on Montanans and how they, or you, read those winds.” The quote is from one of my favorite historians, K. Ross Toole, a Montana rancher who accepted the Hammond Professorship at the University of Montana in 1965 – a post he held until his death in 1981.
Harmon’s Histories: Congress is a ‘quarreling mob,’ then and now
Harmon’s Histories: Congress is a ‘quarreling mob,’ then and now
Harmon’s Histories: Congress is a ‘quarreling mob,’ then and now
“The thing for the present Congress to do is to adjourn and adjourn quickly. There is no possibility of its accomplishing anything of advantage to the people now, if there ever was.” Sounds like something you could easily read in today’s newspaper accounts. But it’s from a Missoulian newspaper editorial written in April 1894, when Democrats controlled both the White House and the Congress.

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