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...Passed the Rankin bill which would restore pension benefits to some 2,000 veterans suffering from the results of venereal diseases contracted during the World War; the Voorhis bill which would permit some 48,000 World War veterans to extend expiring War insurance policies for five years. Sent them to the Senate...
...book's most telling denunciation of modern painting comes not from Mrs. Logan but in a quotation from Critic Henry Rankin Poore, who to her great delight wrote : "At a recent exhibition of an interesting group of French 'Moderns' . . . was a small picture by Matisse of a sauce pan containing two broken eggs lying on a spotted cloth. . . . The eggs had dark brown shadows and even to the uncritical eye of man appeared doubtful. . . . On inquiring the price, it was found to be $5,000. . . . Let us appraise the components of the transaction: Canvas $1.00 Pigment...
...Promoter Rankin, according to Prosecutor Ferguson, also made a deal with Inspector William Byrne of the California State Board of Medical Examiners, who police the practice of medicine in that State. His job for Mr. Rankin, declared the prosecutor last week, was to compel California abortionists who did a good business to subjugate themselves to Rankin dominance or get out of business...
...Rankin. who apparently thought of everything, also organized a Medical Acceptance Corporation to finance installment payments for abortions in precisely the way other finance companies finance the purchase of motor cars, automatic refrigerators, vacuum cleaners. Fees for abortions were to be $35 for a pregnancy of six weeks or less up to $300 for a seven-month affair. Solicitors were offered $10 on a $35 case, $15 for a $50 case, larger commissions on larger fees...
With this setup, shrewd Mr. Rankin was said to have developed a $1,000,000-a-year business when he was arrested. A dozen doctors were supposed to have worked for him. To hide their identities they wore masks when they dealt with patients. If a Rankin abortionist got into trouble with the law, he was transferred to another abortarium...