Victor Crawford lobbied for, then against, this industry before his death from cancer
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Tobacco Lobbyist Victor L. Crawford Reveals His Tactics  Victor Crawford does not have much time he is dying of T2, N2c squamous cell ... first in the House of Delegates and then in the Senate, before he retired from it in ... Working for the tobacco industry was his chance to get a "black hat," client "the .... They're health conscious, or they've had a mother who died of lung cancer or...
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tribute to victor crawford - Congressional Record | Congress.gov ...  Mar 29, 1996 ... Crawford, who died March 2 at age 63 after a two-year bout with cancer, was ... But it was his unyielding crusade against smoking that everyone recalled ... He then began speaking out against smoking, was featured on the CBS ... had lobbied for the tobacco industry before a diagnosis of cancer turned him...
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J! Archive - Show #3254, aired 1998-10-29  The November 25, 1963 front page read, this man "Shot To Death In Jail .... In 1973 he warned Nixon, "We have a cancer within, close to the presidency, that ... Victor Crawford lobbied for, then against, this industry before his death from cancer...
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Victor Crawford, crusader against smoking, dies at 63 Cancer victim ...  Mar 4, 1996 ... Victor L. Crawford, a debonair former Maryland legislator who achieved ... for his conversion from tobacco lobbyist to anti-smoking crusader, died Saturday night at. ... His smoking -- 2 1/2 packs of cigarettes at first, then cigars and ... While battling cancer, he lobbied state legislatures, gave interviews and...
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Turning Over a New Leaf : Activism: Victor Crawford once lobbied for ...  Dec 29, 1994 ... Victor Crawford's story is sadly familiar, that of a man who started smoking in his early teens and now is dying of cancer. ... client--speaking out against youth smoking and the tactics of the industry. ... little self-pity, and seems more angry at himself than the cigarette makers. ... Seizure Led to FloJo's Death...
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Contacting the First World War dead  Sherlock Holmes would ...  May 22, 2012 ... The leading proponent for spiritualism was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once claimed to have contacted his son, Kingsley, a victim of the WWI flu epidemic. ... 'Christianity is dead,' he once declared, 'How else could ten million young ... In 1893, only six years after his first appearance, Conan Doyle killed off...
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President Zachary Taylor's Body To Be Tested for Signs of Arsenic ...  Few Questions Asked Before For months, Ms. Rising has been ... death that almost no one was asking when he died on July 9, 1850. ... Published: June 15, 1991 ... Dr. Richard Greathouse, who agreed that it was worth exhuming the body for tests. ... "We are going to determine if he was poisoned by arsenic or some other...
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The Cult of Beauty is at the V&A: Escape into style, The Telegraph ...  Jul 27, 2011 ... He had made his name in 1882, on a lecture tour of the United States in which he ... by a famous passage in Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times (1854). ... Pater was denounced by the Bishop of Oxford and hauled before the ... industry, enterprise and morality, let alone Mr Gradgrind's facts, facts, facts.
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Billy Carter Dies of Cancer at 51 - Troubled Brother of a President ...  Sep 26, 1988 ... Billy Carter, the irrepressible gas station proprietor and farmer who vaulted to national celebrity in his brother Jimmy's successful campaign for President in 1976, died of cancer of the pancreas yesterday at his home in Plains, Ga. ... ''I refused to conform to an image that a lot ...
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Sen. Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson Dies After Heart ... - Washington Post  Sep 3, 1983 ... Throughout his career, he represented constituencies long associated ... a clause was added that would give the United States parity with the Soviet Union on ... He was a member of the old Joint Committee on Atomic Energy for 30 years. ... In the Senate, he was sometimes called "the senator from Boeing.
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The Smoothest Con Man That Ever Lived | History | Smithsonian  Aug 22, 2012 ... On a Sunday night in May 1935, Victor Lustig was strolling down ... They tried to get Lustig to say what it was for, but the Count shrugged and shook his head. ... He'd sold the Eiffel Tower to a French scrap-metal dealer. ... But prison officials arrived at his cell on the third floor that day and were stunned.
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A Political History of RU-486 - Biomedical Politics - NCBI Bookshelf  Once that happens, the question of licensing (although not FDA approval) becomes ... to promote or to discourage the development of the so-called abortion pill. .... And now contraceptives are considered natural; they aren't controversial at all ...... of the drug's promising uses in other areas, such as fighting breast cancer or...
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Dr. Albert Sabin, Developer of Oral Polio Vaccine, Dies : Medicine ...  March 04, 1993|BURT A. FOLKART | TIMES STAFF WRITER ... the final skirmish between Sabin and Dr. Jonas Salk, who was his prime competitor in the ... Notified of his rival's death, Salk said it was "a great loss. ... In a statement, Dr. Hioshi Nakajima, director of the World Health Organization, called Sabin "one of the great...
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Full text of "The Emperor Of All Maladies [A Biography Of Cancer ...  Leukemia is cancer of the white blood cells  cancer in one of its most explosive, ... played out in color- saturated detail, like a television with the contrast turned too high. .... But unlike Bennett, he didn't pretend to understand it. ..... In 1934, Minot and two of his colleagues won the Nobel Prize for this pathbreaking work.
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Hilary Koprowski, Developed Live-Virus Polio Vaccine, Dies at 96 ...  Apr 20, 2013 ... A pioneering researcher who also helped develop a vaccine for rabies, ... With that sip, Dr. Koprowski, a virologist who died on April 11 at 96, inoculated himself against polio, years before the vaccines of Jonas Salk and .... a signal honor, presented annually for distinguished contributions to vaccinology.
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Crawford Long - Wikipedia  Crawford Williamson Long (November 1, 1815  June 16, 1878) was an American surgeon and pharmacist best known for his first use of inhaled sulfuric ether as an anesthetic. ... The Crawford W. Long Museum in downtown Jefferson, Georgia has been in operation since 1957. A monument in honor of Dr. Crawford W.
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Propaganda and Debating Techniques - Orange Papers  If you won't do what Bill Wilson says, and humbly grovel before your sponsor and ... People whom Stalin did not like and had killed  particularly other old ...... on the subject  is sold as a convenience: "You don't have to bother with focusing." .... There is another name for that "golden age"  they call it "the Dark Ages".).
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Turner Aims To Stop Dodgers Sale | The Spokesman-Review  Mar 18, 1998 ... After a meeting of baseball's ruling executive council ended ... Ted Turner, who has fought Rupert Murdoch and likened the practices of his rival to those of Adolf Hitler, intends to attend his first baseball meeting in years to thwart the sale ... a baseball owners' meeting since March 1989, one baseball official...
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Euthanasia (The Practice of Morality)  Hume approaches the issue from the standpoint of a traditional three-part .... Nor proposed this mode of departing this life, though He were addressing His own ... Hence suicide is always a mortal sin, as being contrary to the natural law and to charity. ... Hence it is not lawful for man to take his own life that he may pass to a...
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Jack Kevorkian - Wikipedia  Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian was an American pathologist, euthanasia activist, painter, author, composer, and instrumentalist. He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; ... Senior doctors at the University of Michigan, Kevorkian's employer, opposed his proposal and...
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A-bomb advocate Lewis L. Strauss -- his influence on early policy ...  Jul 5, 1985 ... No Sacrifice Too Great: The Life of Lewis L. Strauss, by Richard Pfau. ... was narrowly denied Senate confirmation, and so ended his public...