Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Testimonial for Billy. Brinkley began his quackery as a humble "Quaker doctor," a species of tonic peddler who "thee'd" and "thou'd" dollars out of rubes' back pockets-and, naturally, had no connection with the Society of Friends. He learned early the bases of his calling-how to exploit hypochondria, and how to aggravate the bone-bred dislike of the ignorant for honest physicians ("Don't let your doctor two-dollar you to death," he was to thunder later...
...part-time saleslady at Bullock's-Wilshire, a fashionable department store. She graduated with honors and a high school teacher's certificate. Finding a job was no problem: her first assignment, at $187 a month, was teaching commercial subjects at Whittier Union High School in the quiet, Quaker suburb of Whittier. Some of her colleagues foresaw trouble for the pretty young newcomer. One was Helene Colesie, another young teacher who became Pat Nixon's oldest and closest friend (and who later married one of Dick Nixon's closest friends, Los Angeles Magazine Distributor Jack Drown). Says...
...foreign-aid bill that included an artificial birth-control program would be no different from a Protestant President faced with an analogous religious issue. For example: a Methodist with a bill that would provide drinking facilities for the armed forces; a Christian Scientist, in a public health program; a Quaker, in a defense budget. The President can veto a bill that he does not approve, and yet support the bill should it be passed over his veto...