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...years Dr. Benjamin Baker ("B. B.") Moeur (pronounced More) was family physician to thousands of people in the countryside around Tempe, Ariz. A hefty, wrinkled-faced man, with a gruff manner and a heart of gold, he talked turkey to his patients, drove miles through the darkest weather to combat indigestion or bring babies into Salt River Valley. Even when in 1932, the wheel of political fortune boosted him from the role of family doctor to Governor of Arizona, he never expected to become the centre of an international incident...
...ranger in the middle of the main street of Tonto Basin, Ariz, frantically flagged an approaching automobile. To its passengers he explained that his 15-year-old half-breed wife was in her 24th hour of labor. Out from the car climbed Arizona's Physician-Governor Benjamin B. Moeur, followed the ranger to his house. Few minutes later the Physician-Governor delivered the mother of a 7-lb. baby...
Arizona. A political babe-in-arms who never before held public office is 70-year-old Governor Benjamin Baker Moeur of Tempe. During his campaign Democrat Moeur promised all his friends jobs. Last week he was in hot water because he found he had more friends than jobs. A physician, he employs his bedside manner in public. Newsmen consider him profane. Politicians consider him radical. The common people consider him their liberal savior who will somehow deal them reduced taxes...