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...Professor Irving Fisher of Yale, 46, was receptive to a good business enterprise. A 41-year-old Manhattan contractor & builder named Harold Alexander Ley had an inviting idea. The shrewd, vigorous pair conferred, organized the Life Extension Institute with $150,000 capital. Contractor Ley made himself president. Professor Fisher made himself chairman of a Hygiene Reference Board and induced some of the most important medical men of the land to serve under him without pay. Purpose of the Life Extension Institute was to give thoroughgoing medical examinations to all comers at $15 and up. Licensed doctors employed by the Life...
Messrs. Fisher and Ley did not intend to break the New York law which forbids a corporation to practice medicine. William Howard Taft, a great lawyer just out of the White House, became a director of the Life Extension Institute and told his colleagues just how closely they could skirt the fence of Medicine. The American Medical Association made no noteworthy objections...
...last week the Life Extension Institute, with Messrs. Fisher & Ley still in control, had become a $2,000,000 concern, occupying three floors of a midtown Manhattan building and offices in Chicago. Its doctors had made 1,620,000 medical examinations during the preceding 22 years. Three of every 100 examinees came on their own initiative attracted by the advertising which the Life Extension Institute no longer finds necessary or by some of 2,000,000 educational leaflets distributed each year. Two were employees whom business concerns needed to keep healthy. The other 95 were holders of insurance policies whom...
...drove Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. of New York State into court demanding that the Life Extension Institute be dissolved, that its rights, privileges and franchise be forfeited, that a receiver be appointed to liquidate its affairs, that an injunction be issued restraining the Life Extension Institute, President Ley and other officers from exercising their corporate rights. Reason: Telling a man wherein he is not healthy is practically the same as telling him wherein he is sick, and that is a medical diagnosis which a corporation is forbidden to make...
...relay team of Wallace, Wyman, Bob Heskett and Colony, will oppose a team chosen from Crouse, D. Ley, G. Ley, O'Brien, Ostrom and Specht