Word: asher
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Good news for the millions of U.S. sufferers from stomach ulcers was reported to the American Medical Association last week. The best way to treat severe ulcers, according to Manhattan's famed gastroenterologist Asher Winkelstein, is to drip warm milk into a patient's stomach every minute of the day & night. A conclusive report on this continuous drip treatment, used with great success on hundreds of Mt. Sinai Hospital patients, was finally presented last week after ten years of experiment, by Dr. Winkelstein and his colleagues, Dr. Albert Cornell, Physiologist Franklin Hollander...
Allowed to mail the better-behaved issue of May 23. Editor Asher wrote of Lasswell: "This was a peculiar bird. This fellow who had more college degrees than Heintz has pickles, had formulated what he called a chart. . . . Well, the blamed chart looked to me like a Cartoon or one of the inventions of Professor Whatasnozzle in the Sunday comics...
During a recess Editor Asher complained to reporters that he had been described as a "petty bootlegger." Said he: "I never once sold less than a case at a time...
After Repeal, when Asher broke with Paul V. McNutt's local politicians, his noisy cafe, the "Wig-Warn," lost its liquor license. When HOLC foreclosed on him, he broke with Roosevelt and started X-Ray ("A Beacon for Taxpayers and Honest Labor"). In its five years its circulation has wavered between...
Commented the Muncie Press's Editor Wilbur E. Sutton on Editor Asher's Washington hearing: "A fine example of shooting a mosquito with an elephant...