Ivy Ledbetter Lee told John D. Rockefeller Sr. to hand out ______ to children whenever he was in public; this positively transformed his image in the wake of the ______ disaster.
A) candy/Standard Oil
B) nickels/Standard Oil
C) dimes/Ludlow
D) quarters/Standard Oil
E) pennies/Fordham

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Ivy Ledbetter Lee advised John D. Rockefeller Sr. to hand out dimes to children whenever he was in public. This helped to improve his image after the Ludlow Massacre, a violent conflict between striking coal miners and the Colorado National Guard in which dozens of people, including women and children, were killed. The dimes were seen as a symbol of Rockefeller's generosity and concern for ordinary people, and they helped to distance him from the negative publicity surrounding the Ludlow Massacre.

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