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The Dark Money Behind Mother's Day

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

The Rise and Fall of Mother's Day

Frida Ghitis: Annamarie Jarvis invented Mother's Day in 1938. She says the holiday industrial complex has rolled on with marketing campaigns and a compliant media. Neither she nor Congress had the power to close that Pandora's box of carnations and candy,Ghitis writes.

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