Word: milford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moratorium last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 28) kindled indignation no less hot in his own 15th Pennsylvania District than elsewhere. While Postmaster General Brown in Washington was announcing that he would no longer "invite nor follow suggestions" from Congressman McFadden on local patronage, Mrs. Pinchot, whose Milford home is in the rural 15th, was announcing that she would attempt to wrest the McFadden seat in the House away from its present plump occupant. In the April primaries she would be a candidate for the Republican Congressional nomination. Long ambitious to sit in the House, she unhesitatingly seized the McFadden outburst...
...MAYE ROBINSON Milford, Utah...
...Brinkley prospered, Milford boomed. The broadcasting business was augmented by a hospital, where Dr. Brinkley or one of his corps of assistants would transplant goat gonads into senile patients for null per operation. From his station he would advertise his hospital, which grew & grew, soon was using 60 goats a month. Milford got a second-class postoffice as a result of Dr. Brinkley's 3.ooo-letters-a-day mail. The doctor built a $100.000 sanatorium, bought four new automobiles, planned apartment houses and bungalows for employes, a $50.000 "Brinkley Methodist Memorial Church," with chimes and a "Brinkley Memorial Organ...
...first broadcast he announced that .his old Milford medical question box would be on the air daily. Last week he conducted his radio clinic, sending patients to Milford Drug Co. for prescriptions, inviting them to Brinkley Hospital in Milford for diagnosis. Mexican & U. S. medical authorities scratched their heads, puzzled over a ruse by which clever Gland Grafter Brinkley had apparently removed himself from the jurisdiction of either...
...though his programs were broadcast from Mexico, Dr. Brinkley had not crossed the border. He did his broadcasting by remote control from a hotel room in Del Rio. He said he could broadcast from Milford by the same method, explained: "The Milford program would be merely a telephone conversation in the United States and not broadcast until it is in Mexico." The Mexican Department of Communications last week decided that the Villa Acuna station belonged to "a group composed entirely of Mexicans," that its erection was in compliance with the law, left the Department of Health...