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    John Romulus Brinkley (later John Richard Brinkley; July 8, 1885 – May 26, 1942) was an American quack. He had no properly accredited education as a physician...
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  • John Brinkley may refer to: John Brinkley (astronomer) (1763–1835), Astronomer Royal of Ireland and Bishop of Cloyne John R. Brinkley (1885–1942), American...
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  • doctor and radio magnate John R. Brinkley. The documentary is adapted from The Life of A Man: Biography of John R. Brinkley by Clement Wood, directed...
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  • 1970;2:24-8. Carson G. The roguish world of Doctor Brinkley. New York,: Rinehart; 1960. Pruitt V. John R. Brinkley, Kansas physician, and the goat gland rejuvenation...
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  • XER (1932–1933), licensed to Villa Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, was John R. Brinkley's first high-powered "border-blaster" radio station. It first came on...
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  • means to a transmitter located in Mexico. Prior to World War II, Dr. John R. Brinkley controlled a high-power radio station, XERA, located in Ciudad Acuña...
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  • law, part of the Brinkley Act, was introduced in the wake of John R. Brinkley's fraudulent medical advice program on XERA. The Brinkley Act remains on the...
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    without permission, and claiming to sell tickets to concerts or events. John R. Brinkley, the "goat-gland doctor" who implanted goat glands as a means of curing...
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    Woodring 34.14%, and John R. Brinkley, an independent, polled 30.58%. Landon won 34 counties, Woodring won 31 counties, and Brinkley won 40 counties. List...
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  • Richard Linklater would direct a movie about American quack physician John R. Brinkley, to star Robert Downey Jr., based on the 2017 Reply All episode "Man...
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    transplantation specialist, John Brinkley. Brinkley won the most votes, but the state only counted ballots with J. R. Brinkley written in, disqualifying...
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    year to Junction City. It was formally incorporated in 1859. In 1923, John R. Brinkley established radio station KFKB (which adopted the slogan Kansas First...
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    Farmer–Labor Party at its convention on April 28 in Omaha, Nebraska. John R. Brinkley, Thomas Mooney, and Arthur C. Townley had also been proposed as candidates...
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    Republican candidate Frank Haucke and independent write-in candidate John R. Brinkley. Woodring's final margin of victory over Haucke was just 251 votes...
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    and New York, briefly, before being sold John R. Brinkley, M.D. of Del Rio, Texas, and renamed Doctor Brinkley. In 1940, the US Navy purchased her and...
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  • William R. "Bill" Brinkley, was an American cellular biologist and scientific advocate and served as a Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical...
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    from the original on 1 October 2002. Hutchens, John K. (7 June 1942). "Notes on the Late Dr. John R. Brinkley, Whom Radio Raised to a Certain Fame". New York...
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  • Nuts (2012 film), French comedy Nuts! (film), animated documentary on John R. Brinkley NBC Universal Television Studio, or NUTS, former name of television...
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  • Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam, a 2008 book by Pope Brock about John R. Brinkley The Charlatan (Mei), a 1656 painting by Bernardino Mei The Charlatan...
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    defeated both the incumbent Democrat Woodring and independent challenger John R. Brinkley in a closely contested race. He was re-elected governor in 1934, over...
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  • facilities of the old border blaster XERA, which had been created by John R. Brinkley, were confiscated by the Mexican government in 1939, and Villa Acuña...
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    There has been notable damage to memorials, including the memorials of John R. Brinkley and the Elks Rest monument. The cemetery has various monuments, including...
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  • Texas, USA. In the 1930s the station came under the control of Dr. John R. Brinkley who became famous for both his controversial treatments of sexual dysfunction...
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  • conditions. The name was derived by analogy from the treatment devised by John R. Brinkley as an alleged cure for impotence. The term is a completely modern invention...
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  • Paracho, Michoacán. That station no longer exists. Border blaster John R. Brinkley Diario Oficial de la Federación July 30, 1932 DOF August 15, 1963 Border...
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    doi:10.1001/jama.1939.02800190066017. Lee, Alton R. (2002). The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley. University of Kentucky Press. pp. 211-218. ISBN 0-8131-2232-5...
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  • the 1970s. In 1982, he received FDA approval to market the product. John R. Brinkley initiated a boom in male impotence treatments in the U.S. in the 1920s...
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    John Mortimer Brinkley (born 1763 or 1766 – died 14 September 1835) was the first Royal Astronomer of Ireland and later Bishop of Cloyne. He was President...
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  • Christie Brinkley (born 1954), model David Brinkley (1920–2003), television journalist David R. Brinkley (born 1959), Maryland politician Don Brinkley, (1921–2012)...
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  • issues routine licenses under the Brinkley Act, originally enacted to silence the border-blaster charlatan John R. Brinkley, for the operation of Mexican...
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