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The Hawthorne effect was discovered in a city named for this person, where a 4,000-person white mob attacked the home of the Clark family in a 1951 race riot. In The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois describes translating a work by this person “into the simplest English with local applications” to teach sharecroppers’ children. This person’s advice on “motions of the body” is quoted in the “instructions” that open a “Columbian” schoolbook by Caleb Bingham that Frederick Douglass used to learn to read. The (*) “Cross of Gold” speech favorably compares Andrew Jackson to this master of periodic sentences for his defeat of the “conspiracy” of the Second Bank. A Chicago suburb named for this person was Al Capone’s home base. (10[1])Ted Cruz paraphrased a remark by this person as “Shame on the age and on its lost principles!” For 10 points, what orator exclaimed “O tempora, o mores!” while attacking Catiline? ■END■

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