Word: milford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long has Dr. Brinkley been a thorn in the side of the A. M. A. More recently he gave Kansas politicians the scare of their lives. Soon after the War he ap peared in the crossroads village of Milford, Kan. and set himself up as a phy sician after obtaining a license by reciprocity from Arkansas. (His Arkansas license had been granted on the strength of a diploma from the Kansas City Eclectic Medical University, since exposed as a "diploma mill.") Dr. Brinkley built a radio station. KFKB, broadcast jazz music interrupted by lectures on rejuvenation. Soon he had transformed...
Married. Grace Moore, 28, Metropolitan Opera soprano, cinemactress (New Moon); and Valentine Parara, 32, Spanish cinemactor; at Cannes, France. Some of the spectators: Arturo Toscanini, Lady Milford Haven, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Mr. & Mrs. Michael Arlen, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Maurice Dekobra...
...oyster beds of Milford Harbor, Conn., where the Indian River empties into Long Island Sound, he found the spats settling only at low tide. That is when the salt sound water is most diluted by the fresh river water. Something in the river water evidently makes the very young oysters want to nestle to a stone or shell. By tedious eliminations, Mr. Prytherch determined that this settling factor is a trace of dissolved copper. Injurious to plant and animal life when administered in large quantities, copper sulphate may now become one of the tools of oyster farming. And copper (also...
...many Kansans believe that Dr. John Richard Brinkley can energize them with capric gonads that the man last week declared he would run again for State Governor next election.* He had a radio station at Milford, Kan., from which he advertised himself and his medical ideas, most notably his goat-gland panacea. Kansas doctors got his medical license revoked. (He is appealing for re-instate-ment.) The Government forced him to sell his radio station, bought last week by an insurance company. (He quickly bought another in Mexico, which he will operate by remote control at Milford...
...industries, as everyone knows, are textiles (notably the Amoskeag Mills of Manchester, Nashua Manufacturing Co. of Nashua, biggest world producers of blankets), and famed Indian Head cloth; shoes (International Shoe Co., Manchester; J. F. McElwain Co. of Nashua, makers of Tom McAn and John Ward shoes); granite (at Concord, Milford, Conway); power (notably the $32,000,000 generating plant at the 15-mile falls near Monroe, owned by Grafton Power Co., indirect subsidiary of International Paper & Power Corp.); boxwood (notably at Nashua, Keene and Rochester-where last fortnight bells were rung in celebration of the "Dryness" of the Wickersham report...