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The Dark Money Behind Mother's Day
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Anna Marie's Protests
Inventing Mother's Day and hoping it won't be commercialized is like inventing beer and hoping people won't get drunk. It's an exercise in futility. Anna Marie Jarvis could not stand the thought of someone else getting credit for all her work and sacrifice. She announced that she was abolishing Mother's Day. Few people seem to have noticed. Some sources claim that she went door to door, collecting signatures for a petition to get Congress to abolish the holiday it had recognized many years before. If that's true, she didn't succeed.
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