Word: racketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suicide discovered. Dr. John Wyckoff, dean of New York University Medical School, whose death was at first supposed to have been caused by heart failure brought on by his innocent association with an insurance racket (TIME, June 14); by a deliberate overdose of morphine...
...York University Medical School, professor of medicine there and attending physician at Bellevue. It was in the University's anatomical laboratory that this leader in medical education and practice was found in collapse. A few days prior he had been questioned by Federal investigators of a serious insurance racket of which, like many an honest specialist before him, he had been an innocent fool...
...racket was as old as life and disability insurance. That it was able to involve such a man as Dean Wyckoff was testimony to the fine art it has become. The racket: fraudulent doctors and lawyers give a heavily insured "patient"' violent exercises, purges and doses of digitalis. When they achieve a plausible specimen of exhaustion and palpitation, they get his condition on record by hospitalizing him under a conspiring physician's care. Cardiograms, sphygmomanometer readings, charts and reports pile up the evidence. Then comes the payoff: the certification of a reputable heart specialist, called in to examine...
Gosh, what a racket over in Weld. There's a girl in the room .... but the shades are down. Ha! the first chapter doesn't start till page seven. That leaves only 282 1-2 pages to read. I ought to be done...
...curly-haired urchin drops his threepenny Coronation mug. It breaks, he sobs for his mother. Kind bystanders give him much more than three pennies. Sniveling he moves away, into another street to repeat the racket...