Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bald question: "Do you . . . favor compulsory health insurance [in New York State]?" Exactly how members were divided no one ventured to predict, but certain it was that the opposition was well organized. For the last few months Manhattan physicians have been bombarded with propaganda drawn up by smart Publicist Edward Bernays, financed by anti-New Dealer Frank Gannett, who was quick to capitalize on the American Medical Association's opposition to compulsory health insurance, which the New Deal fundamentally endorses. Fancy leaflets, magazines and reprints, some of them issued under the name of the Medical Society of the State...
...Rolls-Royce Co. tried desperately to get one from George V, but he preferred to ride in a Daimler; Rolls finally got one from Edward VIII, but his abdication made it somewhat less desirable...
...only two years, his warrants are still rare. He has granted them to 34 and Queen Elizabeth to 31 personal suppliers who served them before they reached the throne. George V issued about 1,000 (he had nine bakers, twelve grocers, eleven chemists).* Altogether, including those granted by Edward VIII, there are about 1,375 now in existence...
...Chelsea, Mass., after a fall in the police station, Police Lieutenant Edward J. Forbes lost his memory. He had 15? in his pocket. Three days later, when he came to, he found himself in Miami, Fla. with $58 and shiny new luggage...
...Author denies emphatically-despite apparent resemblances-that Narrator Jim Calder is himself, or that the Brills are drawn from his cousins the Edward Everett Hale ("The Man Without a Country") family. Author Marquand is descended from old New England ancestry which included Margaret Fuller, minor Transcendentalists, and a privateer in the Revolution who bagged so many prizes he prayed at last: "Lord, stay thine hand, thy servant hath enough...