Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howard Schultz Anders of Philadelphia hates dirt and dust. He has spent 50 of his 72 years chasing it out of city streets. In the early 1900s Dr. Anders induced the Pennsylvania State Legislature to pass an antispitting law. He also forced the Philadelphia transit company to replace dirty plush streetcar seats with clean, bare benches. In 1919, during a local row over politics in the street-cleaning system, he raised a dust storm with his carpet-beating outburst: "Dust is pulverized poison and we have seen in Filthadelphia too much drifting into damned deferential silences...
...carpet, and the reason was a pulverized poison called morphine. By regulation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, a physician may not supply morphine to a known addict. But for two years Dr. Anders has been feeding heroic doses of morphine to addict Fred Barrick, a busy Philadelphia insurance agent. Federal agents warned Dr. Anders three times to cut off Fred Barrick's supply. Three times he denounced them for "intruding upon the relation between a doctor and his patients." Finally the agents caught Dr. Anders off base...
Last week, Dr. Anders was indicted for illegally "selling" Barrick some 10,000 half-grain morphine tablets in the past two years. No man to preserve a "damned deferential silence," he made a public case out of his indictment, spoke his mind to Philadelphia reporters. Said...
...Philadelphia 4, Chicago...
Chicago 8, Philadelphia...