Word: brinkley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough power to send the cowboy songster's voice twanging out over a quarter-mile radius. Parked nearby was a golden brown, 16-cylinder Cadillac. Kansans whose first guess was that a new medicine show had come to town were not entirely wrong. John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley, 47, nostrum peddler, was stumping every county in the State, conducting his independent gubernatorial campaign...
Candidate Brinkley's show seldom varied. First a preacher from his home town of Mil ford stepped forth to praise the aspirant's piety and generosity. Then other independent office-seekers spoke. Then John Brinkley, preceded by his wife and accompanied by his son "Johnny Boy," made his way to the rostrum. Lights were lowered. Only one bright glow overhead illuminated the soft straw hat, the linen suit, the medical goatee of Candidate Brinkley as he took a seat before his loudspeaker and, widely gesturing, began his speech. The Brinkley platform: free school books, cheaper automobile licenses...
...American Medical Association regards Candidate Brinkley as a dangerous rascal. Back in the days of headphones, rural radio listeners of Kansas and the entire Corn Belt listened attentively to the persuasive Brinkley voice over his station KFKB ("Kansas First, Kansas Best"). Although he has not been permitted to practice medicine in Kansas for the past two years, thousands have had their illnesses diagnosed over the air by Dr. Brinkley, who referred them to certain drug stores where his prescriptions were sold. He also conducted a rejuvenation clinic where he pretended to revive oldsters' potency by the injection of what...
...first broadcast he announced that .his old Milford medical question box would be on the air daily. Last week he conducted his radio clinic, sending patients to Milford Drug Co. for prescriptions, inviting them to Brinkley Hospital in Milford for diagnosis. Mexican & U. S. medical authorities scratched their heads, puzzled over a ruse by which clever Gland Grafter Brinkley had apparently removed himself from the jurisdiction of either...
...though his programs were broadcast from Mexico, Dr. Brinkley had not crossed the border. He did his broadcasting by remote control from a hotel room in Del Rio. He said he could broadcast from Milford by the same method, explained: "The Milford program would be merely a telephone conversation in the United States and not broadcast until it is in Mexico." The Mexican Department of Communications last week decided that the Villa Acuna station belonged to "a group composed entirely of Mexicans," that its erection was in compliance with the law, left the Department of Health...