Word: transplantation
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Brinkley prospered, Milford boomed. The broadcasting business was augmented by a hospital, where Dr. Brinkley or one of his corps of assistants would transplant goat gonads into senile patients for null per operation. From his station he would advertise his hospital, which grew & grew, soon was using 60 goats a month. Milford got a second-class postoffice as a result of Dr. Brinkley's 3.ooo-letters-a-day mail. The doctor built a $100.000 sanatorium, bought four new automobiles, planned apartment houses and bungalows for employes, a $50.000 "Brinkley Methodist Memorial Church," with chimes and a "Brinkley Memorial Organ...
...Board moved to revoke his license. Dr. Brinkley produced dozens of ex-patients who swore they had obtained their money's worth. He got affidavits from 500 more. He invited the board members to his hospital to watch the operations on both men and goats. The doctors watched him transplant goat glands into two patients and promptly revoked his license. Dr. Brinkley countered by running for Governor. He entered the race too late to have his name put on the ballot, could not get newspapers to print his advertisements, had to instruct voters how to vote for him by radio...
...Arkansas is in such a condition as Senator Robinson says and the people have to wait for rain for relief, why wouldn't the best plan be to ask the Red Cross for enough money to transplant the whole crowd out here to Arizona and California where we have irrigation water (the dams are sure filling up); have Congress speed up Boulder Dam and maybe build another one or two. Here in this country they can farm twelve months a year 365 days to the year with the extra one leap year...