Word: quack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years of law, meantime writing special articles for the Boston Transcript to pad out his dwindling $5,500. After a brief and briefless stab at the law in Manhattan, his Transcript record got him a job with Edward Bok for a spirited, 18-month campaign against quack patent medicines in the Ladies' Home Journal. In 1905 came two milestones in Mark Sullivan's life. He went to work for Collier's and he met President Theodore Roosevelt. He stayed with Collier's for twelve years. He is still, in mind and heart, with the great...
Although the small Hillsdale (Mich.) County Fair offers only $35 for its biggest prize, year after year the best teams of draft horses in the U. S. are sent there to pull. Reason is, the quack grass of Hillsdale's paddock gives heavy horses good footing and ten world's records have been tugged across its surface...
...coronary cirrhosis following acute dysentery; in Manhattan. Hoboken-born, educated at Yale "Sheff," Columbia, Kiel, Göttingen, Berlin and Vienna, he taught pathology, became director of the Bellevue Hospital laboratories, was appointed Chief Medical Examiner by Mayor Hylan in 1918. He battled for pure food laws, fought against quack doctors, Prohibition, insanitary restaurants, pronounced on many a suicide and murder that perplexed police, made his name and detective work known in medico-legal circles the world over. Underpaid ($6,890 per year), he footed bills for equipment and technician's salary from his own pocket, twice threatened to resign...
Your science editor would have really distinguished himself from the herd in reporting quake-quack Greenspan (TIME, July 22) if he had footnoted somewhat as follows...
Despite its backing of Mayor Busse, the Tribune was so impressed by Digger Howey that it hired him as city editor at four times his old salary. There he distinguished himself by ridding Chicago of a horde of quack doctors specializing in venereal disease. His strategy was to send out, as a prospective "patient," a reporter who had a clean bill of health from a reputable physician. In the reporter's pocket would be a savings bankbook showing a modest balance. The "patient" would tearfully confess to the quack that he was about to be married but had reason...