Word: doc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bird who came from France to be present that night; Rear Admiral Byrd, Frank Courtney, Harry Connor. (Brock & Schlee, too, would have been there had they not been forced down flying from Detroit to Manhattan.) They were assembled not to be honored, but to honor belatedly Dr. James Henry ("Doc") Kimball of the New York office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who has never flown but who is largely responsible for the success of every oceanic flight starting from the Atlantic coast...
...tuned in just at the moment William H. (Big Bill) Thompson, Chicago's mayor and Republican re-nominee, was talking long-distance to and receiving congratulations from Gov.-Sen. Doc. Huey P. (Pierce, Pearce, Parham or Polycarpe) Long. There followed long-distance back-slapping with "Jimmy" and "William Randolph" and by this time I surmised that all charges on these calls had been reversed-as the telephone operator would...
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...Chicago, "Old Doc" Robert Martin, itinerant Negro patent medicine seller, was urging his nostrum upon a Mrs. Eliza Murphy. Said he: "Madam, it is the greatest discovery since radium. ... It will make a new woman of you. ... I can recommend it because I take it myself. . . . Look at me: the picture of health!" He gasped, reeled, fell dead...
...eligible list, without the formality of an examination." The Izzicson fee: from $200 to $600. Dr. Ross reported his chance discoveries to President George J. Ryan of the New York Board of Education.* Quietly, revealing no names save those of President Izzicson and his henchman, Morris ("Doc") Rubin, the Board of Education got up a 600-page report, appended affidavits of eight mulcted females. Typical case: a young woman whose parents were ill needed a job, borrowed $500, paid it to a "fixer," got nothing in return. To District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan of Brooklyn last week went...