Word: hedley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This rose-colored view of a divided Christendom comes from an ex-British, China-born Methodist minister who teaches economics, preaches sermons, and performs marriages at California's Mills College. From behind his usual king-sized cigaret, short, russet-haired Dr. George Hedley last week explained his double job: "You see, the Dean of Chapel at Mills is a layman, so he couldn't perform marriages. I am an ordained minister. . . . When I first came ... in 1940 the Dean of Chapel and I made an arrangement. He taught one of my courses and I gave half the sermons...
...great medical frauds of recent years was the faking of heart disease to hornswoggle insurance companies. The story of this fraud was definitively told last week in the Annals of Internal Medicine by Dr. O. F. Hedley of the U.S. Public Health Service. The swindle reached its climax in 1937, involved a gang of some 240 people (including at least 25 doctors). Hundreds of thousands of dollars in disability claims were paid out, by more than 40 insurance companies...
...fraud, centering in New York City, was largely promoted by two shyster law firms. The lawyers' "runners" sought out "small businessmen . . . in financial difficulties because of the depression," told them of an easy way to make money. Heart disease, Dr. Hedley pointed out, "is easy to simulate and difficult to disprove," and juries tend to sympathize with the claimant. So the lawyers hired doctors to coach policyholders how to feign heart attacks and symptoms of coronary arteriosclerosis with angina pectoris...
...Medical School recipients are Cecil F. Baxter 1M,; McLemore Bouchelle 1M., Theodore S. Cobbey Jr. 1M., Carmer Hadley 1M., Thomas V. Hedley 1M., George W. Henry 1M., Harry F. Hinckley Jr. 1M., Francis R. Lane 1M., William F. Pollock 1M., William Ridder 1M., Israel H. Scheinberg 1M., Daniel Sciarra 1M., and Chiu-an Wang...