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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, upon taking office as England's Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, a lawyer with a rich practice among health and life insurance companies, appealed to England's doctors for an effective treatment for the common cold...
...young man neglected to exploit the treatment for several years. First he tried his hand at insurance and stock brokering, grew baldish and portly during his efforts, dropped them to promote the Duke-Fingard Treatment in California, China and England, where he heard the plea of Health Minister Sir Kingsley Wood...
...Sir Kingsley would have nothing to do with much-traveled, somewhat evasive Mr. Fingard. That clever man rented a suite of rooms in a fine West End hotel where he let friendly doctors administer treatments for as high as ?1,000 a series. As for himself, he served U. S. coffee, Scotch whiskey and English gin to all comers. Occasionally he hinted that his opposition stemmed from Lord Dawson of Penn, hinted that that eminent physician wanted a cut in this profitable medical business...
Stanchest of Fingard backers became the Dowager Duchess of Suffolk and Berkshire, daughter of the late Chicago department store tycoon, Levi Zeigler Leiter. Also stanch is Lieut.-General Sir Harold Ben Fawcus.K.C.B.,C.B..C.M.G., D.S.O., D.C.L., M.B., D.P.H.. Director- General of the British Red Cross, one-time Director-General of the Army Medical Services. These and others just as influential got King George V's ear, got him to order the Duke-Fingard Treatment investigated officially. Whatever its merits or demerits, now decided Health Minister Sir Kingsley Wood's men, the Treatment did not require Mr. Fingard...
Married, Joyce Wethered, 34, world's greatest woman golfer, four times English woman champion; and Captain Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 42, British sportsman; in London...