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...charged a fee of $12 for the first three treatments, plus $5 a week for succeeding ones. Since he treated thousands of patients annually, investigators estimate he grossed about $500,000. On the Foundation's original Board of Directors were such personages as the late Samuel Untermeyer, Amos Pinchot, Colonel Joseph Hartfield. According to Attorney General Bennett, the raid was inspired by "much whispering in high social and entertainment circles." Said he: "A number of internationally known men and women have attended the clinics of the Body & Mind Foundation, and their subsequent conduct caused great distress to members...
...Gifford Pinchot II, nephew of Pennsylvania's ex-Governor, was sued for $150,000 by a Hollywood dancer named Margo La Salle, who charged he knocked her flat at a nightclub...
...Steuer emigrated to Manhattan as a boy, worked day & night to pay for his legal education. At the height of his career, candid, inconspicuous Steuer was reputed to have made $1,000,000 a year. Among his clients: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Gangster John Torrio, ex-Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Fight Promoter Tex Rickard, onetime Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Charles E. Mitchell, onetime president of National City Bank of New York...
...President (Taft) was a Bones man. Among living Bones men are Presidential Candidate Robert A. Taft, Republican Leader Kenneth Simpson, Banker Percy Rockefeller, onetime Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot. onetime Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, Author Donald Ogden Stewart, Radio Singer Lanny Ross, Yale's President Charles Seymour. Not strictly accurate is the legend that a Bones man is never without a job, but a Bones man on his uppers often gets handouts from fellow Bones men or the society. Skull & Bones (corporate name: Russell Trust Association) is sometimes alleged to be Connecticut's second richest corporation (first...
...longer ago than 1938, "Market Street" had ladled out a plump $100 per division to knock out old Gifford Pinchot's third try at the Governorship; that fall, when Republican Arthur Horace (Breaker Boy) James tossed the Little New Deal of Governor George H. Earle III out of Harrisburg, Republican committeemen carried rolls of at least $100 per division. And in 1939's mayoralty fight, an alleged cascade of currency from the offices of G. 0. P. City Chairman Jay Cooke won the election between 4 and 6 p.m. with a $100-per-division allotment...