Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago hotel one day last week, Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend received the Press, thoughtfully rejected a suggestion that he might be the next President of the U. S. "I wouldn't be a candidate," mused the 69-year-old onetime country doctor, "except on one condition-That I could unite the people and resign the day after election. As long as I'm able to wiggle, I'd like to be able to do a little dictating to the President, and I think I could do that better from outside than inside the White House...
...eyed Townsendites, who had been whooping and hollering "Amen!"' all through the speech, climbed on their chairs, made their earlier cheers for Dr. Townsend sound like feeble piping. Magnanimously Preacher Smith beckoned Dr. Townsend to his side. Spotlights speared down, flash bulbs popped as the old doctor put his bony hand in the young preacher's. In the press box, newshawks who had watched the pair in recent days, had seen Dr. Townsend consult Preacher Smith on every move, let him act as their joint spokesman, believed they were witnessing not a union but a usurpation...
...commonest forms of preparation for a career as a champion athlete is a sickly childhood. Diver Jump's debility reached the stage where her doctor had to advise her to take up swimming when she was 11. She began high diving a year or so ago, won the women's national championship in her second try for it last week. Because her specialty is a two-and-a-half forward somersault from the 24-ft. plat- form, which no other girl in the world can do, she was handicapped in the Olympic tryouts three days later because...
Overshadowed by his older brother, Amadeo Peter Giannini, head of Transamerica Corp., Attilio Giannini had quietly grown into a unique relationship with the cinema industry. Cut out to be a doctor, he took his M.D. at the University of California, doctored 6,000 Negro troops stationed at San Francisco's Presidio during the Spanish-American War, worked day & night through the terror of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, nearly died of typhus. Meanwhile Brother Amadeo's bank, having been demolished in the earthquake, moved into Attilio's house. When he recovered from typhus, Attilio became manager...
Switching to Manhattan to found East River National Bank, the doctor was obliged to gamble for new business, began financing money-hungry cinema companies. His sure-fire test of the box-office value of a new film was to show it privately to a group of schoolgirls aged 15 to 20. What they liked he lent money on. Berated once by a bank examiner for having risked $500,000 on Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, he replied: "I think it a better investment than a Liberty Bond." The Kid paid back its loan in five months, and Liberty Bonds...