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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week marched Mexican troops on business. Next day thousands of U. S. radio-listeners set their dials for Villa Acuna's station XER, got nothing but a hum from across the Rio Grande. Mexico had slapped an angry hand over the mouthpiece of "Dr." John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley, onetime Milford, Kans. rejuvenator and nostrum seller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: XER Silenced | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...McAlpine, Gerardus Beekman defeated R. W. Reardon, H. B. Sprague defeated W. M. Cook, J. N. Hodges defeated J. L. Cummings, R. T. Brown defeated W. B. Kantack, C. S. Kelley defeated R. M. Saul, M. D. Whitney defeated W. H. Lee, D. S. De Bard defeated R. C. Brinkley. At 3 o'clock: O. S. A. Sprague defeated M. K. Ruddock, P. E. Geter defeated F. B. Tolles, R. B. Graves defeated A. A. Ballantine, W. J. Watson defeated E. R. Spinney, John Doll defeated Taber De Forest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN TOURNAMENT GETS UNDER WAY TODAY AT LINDEN ST. COURTS | 2/9/1933 | See Source »

Kansas. Republican Alfred Mossman ("Alf") Landon, 45, of Independence, saved his state from a goat gland government when he defeated "Dr." John R. Brinkley, blatant independent, radio medicine man, and simultaneously wrested the governorship away from Democrat Harry Woodring. In 1912 he was a rampant Progressive, is regular today. Oil made him rich. All in one week last year he won the party nomination for governor, became the father of a daughter and brought in a 500-bbl.-per-day oil well. As a boy he once held an old hen on her nest until she delivered the egg necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crop of Governors | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

...only does the American Medical Association view Candidate Brinkley with alarm but so do the regular Kansas gubernatorial nominees, Republican Alf M. Landon and Democrat Harry Woodring, who is trying to succeed himself. Both have devoted considerable effort to chocking what appears to be a steadily oncoming Brinkley steamroller. Two years ago Governor Woodring squeezed into office with a majority of 319 votes. John Brinkley, his name not on the ballot, polled close to the leaders with 188,000 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Capric Candidate | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

Bearing in mind the example of Iowa's Republican Senatorial nominee, independent Henry ("Himself") Field, both of Kansas' regular gubernatorial candidates are unpleasantly aware of the potency of a freak campaign equipped with a private radio station. Another who dreaded that capric Candidate Brinkley might win was Editor William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette. Fearfully he editorialized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Capric Candidate | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

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