Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then on the very next page, backing up this article which implied continuing advertising ideals on the part of the Press, appeared a full page advertisement of one of the most notorious medical quacks in the U. S.-Dr. William Oakley Coffee of Davenport, Iowa...
...soon after, Quack Coffee set himself up at Davenport as an "eye, ear, nose and throat" specialist and began a new technique of gull-baiting. He bought full page space in newspapers and thereby gold-knuckled editorial prudence. He called himself a specialist and offered to treat "deafness, head noises from nasal catarrh," and only the American Medical Association objected. Such full page advertisements have become his chief means, with his "sucker list," of exploitation.* Quick flipping of newspaper files show that from January to April of this year he used full page spreads in at least the St. Louis...
...late, onetime (1877-1911) U. S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan; brother of onetime (1906-18) Interstate Commerce Commission James S. Harlan; brother of Educator Richard Davenport Harlan ("the George Washington University Movement") ; father of the present Assistant U. S. District Attorney for Southern New York John Marshall Harlan (TIME, May 31). Twenty years ago, Chicago surface lines, well plundered, were in receivership. Lawyer John Maynard Harlan represented, the. court, then...
...some gentlemen talk with their fingers. They talked in an ancient language, for they were dealer's agents, and their nodding heads, their twitching forefingers, indicated bids of a thousand, of ten thousand pounds. When a little picture on the scaffold (George Romney's portrait of Mrs. Davenport, seated, 30 by 25 inches) was knocked down to Sir Joseph Duveen's man for approximately $260,000, the elegant watchers burst into applause. Romney's Lady Hamilton brought $65,000. And Sir Joshua Reynold's Cimon and Iphigenia brought $60. And Van Dyke's Infant...
...Basil Davenport, the final speaker for the affirmative delivered the most brilliant speech of the evening, and won the audience over to the Yale position. He began by complaining that education dried up one's sense of humor. He also asked how education could recompease us for the diseases and evils which it brings on us and then is itself necessary to cure them. Going off on a different line. Davenport represented himself as a Spartan coming to Athens, which was represented by Harvard, to show the people there that their ideal of education was not the one on which...