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...Emerson, however, jumped into politics with both feet last week as the final balloting on the society's insurance question took place. Anti-New Deal Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett gave a dinner at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel to recruit members for his National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, and asked Dr. Emerson to speak. About 75 prominent Manhattan physicians were invited to come and bring as guests four of their wealthiest or most influential patients. The committee solicited money from doctors and friends, promised in return to work for the defeat of the "dangerous, menacing" Wagner bill...
Publisher Gannett was absent. Toastmaster was his good friend-bald, shrewd Surgeon Charles Gordon Heyd, former president of the American Medical Association. Dr. Heyd sounded the theme of the meeting: doctors and businessmen must form a political alliance against the New Deal. Chief speakers were Dr. Emerson, who delivered his stock arguments, the committee's treasurer, Sumner W. Gerard, who claimed that the New Deal was out to rook doctors for the sake of a "piece of cheese," and defeated Democratic Congressman Samuel Pettengill of Indiana, who delivered a full-throated 1940 campaign speech...
...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 of New York, ask doctors such sly questions...
Unsuccessful candidates for the Permanent Class Committee were headed by Robert E. Lane and Lawrence F. Ebb, with 117 ballots each. Following Lane and Ebb were Myron L. Cohen with 111; Francis F. Foley, 110; Robert T. Gannett 2nd, 110, Ulyssess J. Lupien, Jr., 110; Gordon S. Ierardi, 109; Arthur L. Johns, 107; Paul R. Wentworth, 107; Robert A. Sears, 102; Donald L. Daughters, 102; Harold M. Curtiss, Jr. Jr., 91; Richard R. Flood, 87; Thomas D. Duane, 84; Roswell Brayton, 82; Thomas L. Talbot, 70; Nicholas Mellen, 63; Joseph C. Donnelly, '41; and Charles D. Dyer...
...Robert T. Gannett...