Word: steenwyk
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...Three Apostles. But generally the hospital plans were financially sound, and as they grew they prospered-thanks largely to three men. In St. Paul, a onetime schoolteacher named E. A. Van Steenwyk became a rampaging apostle of voluntary hospital insurance, tried to convert everyone he met, from elevator boys to bishops. By 1936 he had bullyragged 200,000 Twin Citizens into signing up. He went on to Philadelphia, became Blue Cross's model organizer...
...half-open door, tried to jerk the door wide open. One of the detectives rapped his knuckles with a revolver butt. The other slammed the door in his face. Purple-faced Nazi Boenninghausen demanded that the detectives be removed. Replied the Chamber's President Baron de Vos van Steenwyk: "You will be the one removed, if you do not calm yourself...
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