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...question the Court of Appeals had ruled he must answer: "Did you bribe any public official?" Replied Dr. Doyle: "No." Mr. Seabury and the Republican Committeemen were astonished by this answer, suspected Horse Doctor Doyle of committing perjury. Though the committee voted he was still in contempt, "Doc" Doyle's lawyers got him out of jail on a writ of habeas corpus...
...himself up as a special pleader before the Board of Standards & Appeals. Such a position requires no legal experience. Word soon got round that if you wanted to locate a garage in a restricted neighborhood or construct a building out of unapproved material, the man to "see" was "Doc" Doyle. By 1930. aged 60, the genial little man had acquired nine children and more than a million dollars...
...Bird who came from France to be present that night; Rear Admiral Byrd, Frank Courtney, Harry Connor. (Brock & Schlee, too, would have been there had they not been forced down flying from Detroit to Manhattan.) They were assembled not to be honored, but to honor belatedly Dr. James Henry ("Doc") Kimball of the New York office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who has never flown but who is largely responsible for the success of every oceanic flight starting from the Atlantic coast...
...tuned in just at the moment William H. (Big Bill) Thompson, Chicago's mayor and Republican re-nominee, was talking long-distance to and receiving congratulations from Gov.-Sen. Doc. Huey P. (Pierce, Pearce, Parham or Polycarpe) Long. There followed long-distance back-slapping with "Jimmy" and "William Randolph" and by this time I surmised that all charges on these calls had been reversed-as the telephone operator would...
...Chicago, "Old Doc" Robert Martin, itinerant Negro patent medicine seller, was urging his nostrum upon a Mrs. Eliza Murphy. Said he: "Madam, it is the greatest discovery since radium. ... It will make a new woman of you. ... I can recommend it because I take it myself. . . . Look at me: the picture of health!" He gasped, reeled, fell dead...