Category: Kansas City
From Board Room to the Classroom
What happens when the CEO of a major corporation decides he wants to begin teaching middle school math? It’s a real life story that played…
H&R Block Career Change
Tom Bloch’s father and uncle founded H&R Block, a company that Tom eventually led as CEO. But there was something else that weighed on his…
H&R Block
There are some folks that think they can run your business better than you can. In this case, the man at the newspaper was right….
The Bloch Brothers
Very few people like to figure their taxes and even fewer like to pay them. But this pair of brothers found an unlikely business doing…
The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
It’s difficult for many of us to name many specific battles or events in World War I. We may have learned the war began when…
The Beginning of World War I
Some say the event that began the first World War occurred on June 28, 1914…a century ago. Today we take a look back and what…
100 Years Since The World’s First Global Conflict
This week marks 100 years since the world faced its first global conflict. It was a war that would engulf countries on multiple continents. Yet,…
The World War I Museum
When the World War I museum and Liberty Memorial were dedicated in 1926 by President Calvin Coolidge, it’s said he addressed the largest live audience…
A Global Conflict
Ask most Americans who their nation fought in World War II and they’ll tell you Nazi Germany and Japan. Ask them who was the enemy…
Hiding Cash in a Unique Way
When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this banker’s money, he did what any logical person would do–he dressed as a woman and began…
