Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Royal Meeker, U. S. economist, ridiculed the St. Lawrence waterways project, declared that for the same cost eight parallel railroad tracks could be laid between New York and Chicago...
Aged 41, resigned from St. Paul's for a job with the Anti-Saloon League of New York. He has always implied that he was its superintendent...
...Chamberlin, another trans-Atlantic flyer, to be president of Crescent Aircraft Corp., organized last year to manufacture commercial airplanes. They paid $4 for Crescent stock, tried to sell it for $12 to $16 a share with the intimation that Crescent planes had been ordered for passenger service between New York and Newfoundland, Bermuda and London. Clarence Chamberlin, a gull for no long time,* was vexed. He asked and received a temporary injunction against Hadley & Co. selling Crescent stock. Chamberlin also had newspapers print his public warning against buying Crescent stocks. This scandal, however, did not create official investigation. Airvia-Coastal...
...developed the Health Education Society, as an adjunct of the Episcopal Church Temperance Society. Wrote a book, Intestinal Gardening. Opened a Health Education Society Clinic in Manhattan, to cure alcoholism, drug addiction, dietary ills. He hired a medical staff, advertised for patients, earned $500 a month. This vexed New York doctors who complained to the municipal board of health. His priesthood repelled investigation as it attracted him patients, especially female patients. Although he had licensed physicians on his staff, he frequently examined patients himself, persuading women (many have complained to city health authorities) to strip naked except for stockings...
Aged 53 (last year), the Episcopal Church House of Bishops, at Washington, resolved that "This House definitely declared that the Episcopal Church Temperance Society has no official standing in this Church." After warnings from the New York City Health Department, in September he closed the Health Education Society Clinic. Very quickly his clinic reopened (as quack outfits do) at another address and with another name, the Emanuel Institute...