"If I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as a thing that merely happened, the end of some inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people-with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe."
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was referring to the _________.

Outbreak of the Civil War

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Bombing of Pearl Harbor

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Break-in at the Democratic national headquar ters in the Watergate buildings

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Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

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Fixing of the 1919 World Series

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The correct option is E Fixing of the 1919 World Series
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was referring to the fixing of the 1919 World Series. Gambler Arnold Rothstein engineered the fixing of the 1919 World Series, depriving 50 million fans of seeing a fairly contested match.According to him Meyer Wolfsheim fixed the World Series, an enormous crime that Nick thinks is like a burglar blowing a safe. But the burglar gets caught and Wolfsheim uses his wealth and underworld connections to stay squeaky clean. Apparently you don't have to be high class to benefit from your wealth.

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