Word: brinkleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brinkley prospered, Milford boomed. The broadcasting business was augmented by a hospital, where Dr. Brinkley or one of his corps of assistants would transplant goat gonads into senile patients for null per operation. From his station he would advertise his hospital, which grew & grew, soon was using 60 goats a month. Milford got a second-class postoffice as a result of Dr. Brinkley's 3.ooo-letters-a-day mail. The doctor built a $100.000 sanatorium, bought four new automobiles, planned apartment houses and bungalows for employes, a $50.000 "Brinkley Methodist Memorial Church," with chimes and a "Brinkley Memorial Organ...
...Erected to God and His Son, Jesus, in appreciation of many blessings conferred upon me: J. R. Brinkley...
...then Kansas physicians were up in arms. The State Medical Board moved to revoke his license. Dr. Brinkley produced dozens of ex-patients who swore they had obtained their money's worth. He got affidavits from 500 more. He invited the board members to his hospital to watch the operations on both men and goats. The doctors watched him transplant goat glands into two patients and promptly revoked his license. Dr. Brinkley countered by running for Governor. He entered the race too late to have his name put on the ballot, could not get newspapers to print his advertisements...
...Brinkley went to Del Rio, Tex. and began practice under a license which he had in that State.? Across the border in Villa Acuna, Mexico, he built a $350,000 station, obtained a license from the Mexican Government...
Last month Station XER, operating on 735 kilocycles with 75,000-watt power, "the world's largest broadcasting station''! opened. It was a great day for Del Rio. The six-page Del Rio Evening News published a 24-page supplement full of advertisements all welcoming Dr. Brinkley and XER. Full-page advertisers were headed by the Del Rio Chamber of Commerce, which blurbed: "We have the utmost faith & confidence in Dr. & Mrs. J. R. Brinkley and those who made this great station possible." Cinema theatres advertised "XER Gala Week" featured by the Four Marx Brothers in Monkey Business. Dr. Brinkley...