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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...
Despite fines and warnings Dr. Brinkley had repeatedly let his station overrun its allotted time on the air, had broadcast solely in English, had advertised his medical services and remedies without a Mexican license. He had also caused Mexico "constant trouble" with the U. S. by hogging channels assigned to weak Southwestern U. S. radio stations. Last fortnight Mexico's Department of Communications issued an order suspending XER for 30 days. Resourceful Dr. Brinkley got a restraining injunction, went on broadcasting by remote control. A higher court quashed the injunction. Still cowboy songs, jazz and unctuous medical advice continued...
...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...
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...
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...