Medicine: California v. New York

Monday, May. 25, 1931

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grinds. There was real power in Mrs. Conners' exclamation after last week's Coffey-Humber hearing ended: "What's good in California should be good in New York! If they [organized Medicine] won't let Dr. Coffey take my estate and stop the sufferings of human beings, I'll see Governor Roosevelt myself."

* He has high blood pressure. At the hearing he carried in his pocket a soothing telegram from Mrs. Coffey, urging him to keep his temper. * Other Eastern directors of the New York Better Health Foundation are James Joseph Irwin Jr., Lawyer Satterlee's junior partner (David Milton, son-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is another junior partner); and Dennis Russell Scanlon, pugnacious, square-headed young Irishman who has risked the prosperity of his surgical instrument business to fight Coffey-Humber opponents.

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