American Cancer Society:
This Carcinogenic World According to Elmer Bobst
Elmer
Bobst's Early Years in the American Cancer
Society
According to his autobiography (Bobst:
autobiography of a pharmaceutical pioneer,
1973), Bobst was doing war bond work in 1945
"when Governor Walte Edge, of New Jersey,
and Eric Johnson, the czar of the motion
picture industry, came to see me on behalf
of the American Cancer society.... It had
been run like a small mom and pop business,
content to putter along with limited
results.... My first step was to enlist the
support of the strong team that had
volunteered to help with the bond sales,
because I knew them and I knew their
capabilities. [Besides, with the war ending,
he could hijack them to serve his purposes -
cast] Without letting them know the reason,
I invited all of my county bond chairmen and
some other people of importance -- about
thirty in all -- to join me for cocktails
and dinner at a club. We enjoyed a convivial
evening and a good dinner before I got up to
reveal the purpose of the meeting. I
explained, then, that I was about to
undertake a mission -- a spiritual crusade
to save human lives, and I wanted them to go
on the crusade with me. Then I introduced a
distinguished guest, Dr. Clarence Cook
Little, a top biologist and geneticist
[actually, CC Little was far from the top
and was primarily a mouse-breeder - cast]
and director of the Jackson Memorial
Laboratory in Detroit, had been scientific
director and the leading force in the Cancer
Society since 1929.... At the end of the
evening, all but two of my bond volunteers,
including nineteen of the county chairmen,
agreed to join the crusade."
His fund-raising attracted the attention of
Albert and Mary Lasker: "Within a few weeks
-- I think it was in June, 1945, while I was
still running the New Jersey fund-raising
effort -- I was elected chairman of the
executive committee, succeeding Emerson
Foote, another great advertising leader, in
the top administrative policy position....
The society was being run by the scientists
and physicians with a kind of polite
sufferance of its lay leaders.... I decided
that the first priority was to move aside
the scientists and physicians who were in
administrative control of the organization.
They were good men, but they were not
experienced leaders, and they were not
getting results. I wanted majority control
to be in the hands of qualified lay leaders.
The physician members could form a
scientific committee to make recommendations
about scientific matters and advise the
executive committee."
[In short,
science would be secondary to manipulation
of the masses, a priority which the ACS
retains to this day - cast.]
"Naturally I had informed Dr. Little of my
intention to call for a total change in the
structure and leadership of the society. His
first order of business at the meeting
therefore was to defend the record of his
administration and throw cold water on my
plans for the future." Bobst took offense at
Little's remark, "We must remember,
gentlemen, that the chairman of the
executive committee is just a pharmacist,
and that the extent of his medical
experience and knowledge is limited." Bobst
blustered in return that "I'll match my
knowledge in materia medica and therapeutics
with any one in this room who is willing to
meet me. I've read a great deal. I have a
library of 300 medical books. I've been
writing on medical subjects for twenty-four
years, and I've gone through most of the
disciplines of medicine. To be perfectly
frank, I think I know nearly as much about
cancer as any of you here."
[But there is no evidence that he cared
anything about medical ideas, except if they
could be used as an angle to peddle his
products - cast.]
Bobst attributes his victory to having made
his case privately to each committee member
before the meeting, which Little hadn't
done. And, laughably in the light of
Helicobacter pylori, including evidence that
a bacterial cause had been suspected in
ulcers as far back as 1946, he whines: "My
legacy, which perhaps I could blame more one
my four-year battle with Barrell than on the
fight for control of the Cancer Society, was
a duodenal ulcer which I had to begin
nursing back to health after the executive
committee meeting struggle. The conflict had
been even harder on Albert Lasker, who was
so exhausted from the squabbling of the
society's doctors that he had to bow out of
active participation in order to conserve
strength for his other volunteer
activities."
[Lasker died seven years later in 1952 from
stomach cancer. So much for the medical
science of ad agency types -cast.]
"My first step was to get Jim Adams of
Standard Brands on the executive committee.
Jim was a cool leader, a diplomat, and, as
former executive of the Benton and Bowles
Advertising Agency, a promotion expert. He
also understood medical research not only
from his involvement with pharmaceuticals at
Standard Brands, but as a leader in
President Roosevelt's Warm Springs polio
foundation, as a member of the Tom Spies
nutrition committee, and as committee member
of the War Production Board team that
spurred the development of atabrine as a
substitute for quinine. I also drew other
top people for the committee,
among them
General William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan, head
of the wartime O.S.S., General John Reed
Kilpatrick, the president of the Madison
Square Garden corporation, Henry Von Elm,
chairman of Manufacturers Trust, Howard Pew,
the Philadelphia oil man, and Ralph Reed,
president of American Express."
"We moved rapidly to tighten and improve our
paid staff organization and enhanced their
career opportunities with a generous pension
and insurance plan. We disbanded the
cumbersome and expensive 'Women's Army' and
trained our best people in more
sophisticated fund-raising techniques:
special gift solicitations among wealthy
potential donors; high-intensity
community-wide fund campaigns; letter and
card campaigns; arresting public service
advertisements; fund-raising contests;
special appeals to civic organizations, and
so forth." To remedy the "ignorance" of the
public on the subject of cancer, the ACS
commenced its "education" campaign with the
"Seven Danger Signals," originating from
Bobst's scribbled notes on the back of a
restaurant menu.
"...My involvement with the Cancer Society
brought me into contact with a small group
of active people -- someone called them
'benevolent plotters -- who set out during
and after World War II to revolutionize
American medical education, research and
health care." [Sic -- they usurped the
taxpayers' money to push their health
fascist agenda, a mess of pseudo-moralistic
19th century tripe owing more to John Harvey
Kellogg than anyone else, and paint it with
a veneer of science - cast] "They included
Albert and Mary Lasker, Dr. Alton Ochsner,
Dr. Michael DeBakey, Emerson Foote, Dr.
Frank Adair, Anna Rosenberg, my old friend
Jim Adams, and a number of other well-known
and not-so-well-known people who were
willing to devote time and energy [he forgot
MONEY -cast] to this noble cause. All of
them did not agree all of the time, but all
of them were united in one purpose: to
stimulate federal support of medical
research and education [FOR THEIR OWN
PURPOSES - cast]. To accomplish this
required the ear of Congress, and to gain
that ear required enormous voluntary
expenditures of time and energy [and MONEY -
cast], cultivating senators and congressmen,
educating them and creating forceful
advocates for medical progress. Each of us
willingly testified before congressional
committees whenever the chance arose, or
called on members of Congress, to
proselytize for greatly expanded
appropriations and responsibilities for the
National Institutes of Health." [The better
to stack them with Syndicate cronies, who in
turn handed out funding to other syndicate
cronies - cast.]
Elmer Bobst credits himself with bringing
the 1950 study by Wynder and Graham to the
attention of the American Cancer Society,
and instigating its first epidemiologic
study. He bombastically portrays himself as
a noble truth-seeker overcoming
self-interested naysayers: "I want to tell
you and everyone here that I have been
traveling up and down the country and
collecting money for one purpose: To find
out through research the causative factors
and possible cures of cancer in any form.
The disease has been increasing just as much
here as in England. There may or may not be
a relationship between cigarette smoking and
lung cancer, but there certainly are grounds
for investigation. As chairman of this
meeting, I intend to take action and appoint
a committee that will develop ways and means
of finding out. The American public has been
generous to this society and has the right
to know the truth."
Actually, by his own admission of ACS
fund-raising techniques, it was not "the
American public" which was so generous to
them, as it was a certain little clique of
health fascist ideologues. And the American
people would not get the truth from the
American Cancer Society's studies, because
as far as Bobst was concerned, statistical
correlation did equal causation, with equal
validity for heart disease or emphysema or
any other disease smoking was accused of
causing. Thoughts such as confounding by
infection, or initiation versus promotion of
carcinogenesis, never crossed Elmer Bobst's
simple mind, and were not welcome in his
determination to silence dissenters.
"We released the first results of our study
in June, 1954. Although the reactions of the
tobacco industry, much of the public, and
even many medical people ranged from
outraged disbelief to quiet skepticism, we
stuck by our guns and continued the study.
As more reports came in and were evaluated,
we refined the results to show that a person
smoking one pack a day ran at least fourteen
times more risk of lung cancer than the
nonsmoker, and that as the number of
cigarettes consumed increased, so did the
risk. Within a few years, we noted a
statistical correlation between smoking and
heart disease, and a positive cause and
effect relationship between smoking and
emphysema. The denials and skepticism that
our reports first raised have long been
conclusively put to rest by further studies,
all based on that first statistical research
project that Dr. Cameron and I insisted the
Cancer Society undertake in 1950."
Actually, the "denials and skepticism" were
put to rest by the sheer intellectual
lameness of C.C. Little, the Society's own
former scientific director, in his
ill-fitting role as a supposed defender of
the tobacco industry, thanks to the
disbelief he shared that infections cause
cancer. As if acting in collaboration with
the ACS, he helped condition the media to a
totalitarian mentality of ridiculing
skepticism and suppressing dissent. They
conspired to literally make a thought-crime
out of considering the possibility of
alternative explanations: It is one of the
formal accusations of the state tobacco
lawsuits. To this day, despite the mounting
evidence that infections are the real cause
of a very substantial proportion of supposed
smoking-related diseases, neither the ACS
nor its puppet, the National Cancer
Institute, have made a good-faith effort to
investigate this possibility in regard to
lung cancer. They refuse to consider any
mechanism other than chemical
carcinogenesis, although they have failed to
identify such a mechanism despite fifty
years of dedicating vast resources, mostly
those of the taxpayers, to this effort.
The Elmer
Holmes Bobst Collection / New York
University
"As head of the U.S. arm of the
international Hoffman-La Roche drug company
during the 1930s, Bobst also 'worked to make
the nation vitamin conscious.' In 1938,
Bobst scored a 'coup' by suggesting that
thiamine (vitamin B1), manufactured by his
company, be added to refined flour... 'With
Charles "Boss" Kettering of General Motors
and other business and professional people,'
Bobst set up the Tom Spies Committee for
Clinical Research, with an unprecedented
annual budget of $150,000, to study
vitamins.' 'Soon,' wrote Bobst, there was no
doubt about the need for the mass
consumption of vitamins.' General Mills
Chairman Donald Davis was an ally in
lobbying for state laws requiring
fortification. (From
The Cancer
Charity Ripoff, by Peter Barry Chowka.
East West Journal, July 1978.)
Chowka, East
West Journal 1978 / tobacco documents
Elmer H. Bobst was a trustee of the National
Fund for Medical Education in 1954. Fellow
trustees included B. Brewster Jennings,
Devereux C. Josephs, Winthrop Rockefeller,
Anna M. Rosenberg, and Thomas J. Ross
(Letter, Howard Corning Jr. to Dr. C.C.
Little, Aug. 16, 1954). Thomas J. Ross was
later a trustee of Ernst Wynder's American
Health Foundation.
Corning to
Little, Aug. 16, 1954 / tobacco document
The American Cancer Society, 1946: Dr. Frank
E. Adair, President; Elmer H. Bobst,
president of William R. Warner & Co., was
chairman of the executive committee; Eric A.
Johnston, chairman; Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads,
director of Memorial Hospital, was chairman
of the Committee on Growth. Dr. Clarence C.
Little told of the society's educational
program, at the ACS's annual dinner for the
National Association of Sciences Writers at
the Biltmore Hotel. (War Data Sought in
Cancer Studies. New York Times, Jan. 9,
1946.)
The American
Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society's puppet, the
International Union for the Control of
Cancer (UICC), grew out of a trip to Europe
that Bobst made in 1954.
The UICC:
ACS's Foreign Puppet
Honorary Life Members of the American Cancer
Society include Gen. William J. Donovan,
Eric A. Johnston, Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg,
and Alfred P. Sloan Jr.; directors include
James S. Adams, Lane W. Adams, Elmer H.
Bobst, William U. Gardner, Mrs. Albert D.
Lasker, and Alton Ochsner.
Letter, July 27, 1956 / tobacco document
Letter, April 3, 1958 / tobacco document
In 1956-57, Bobst was a director-at-large of
the American Cancer Society. He was a member
of the ACS Executive Committee in 1945, and
Vice Chairman from 1946-50; ACS National
Campaign Chairman 1947-48 and its chairman
from 1949-56; and Honorary Board Chairman of
the ACS from 1951-55. He was Chairman of the
Board of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co.,
a member of the National Advisory Cancer
Council of the National Cancer Institute;
Director of the Spies Committee for Clinical
Research; the University of Pennsylvania
Medical Research Council; a Trustee of
Rutgers College of Pharmacy, and of Franklin
and Marshall College; and President of the
Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Foundation. He
was also a founding member of the World
Medical Association and National Fund for
Medical Education.
Know Your
Board of Directors, ACS 1957 / tobacco
document
Elmer Bobst was an Honorary Life Member of
the American Cancer Society in 1963, along
with James S. Adams (Lazard Freres), Eric
Johnston, Alton Ochsner, Mrs. Anna M.
Rosenberg, and Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Mrs.
Albert D. Lasker was honorary Chairman of
the Board and a director; Lane Adams was
executive vice president; and former
Wisconsin Governor (1951-57) Walter J.
Kohler Jr., who was chairman of the board in
1958, was also a director.
Ravdin to
Riggleman, 1963 (p. 5)/tobacco document
National Officers of the American Cancer
Society, 1974- Mrs. Albert D. Lasker,
Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors;
R. Lee Clark of MD Anderson. Honorary Life
Members - Elmer H. Bobst; Emerson Foote;
Mrs. Anna Rosenberg Hoffman; Alton Ochsner;
Ann Landers. Council for Research and
Clinical Investigation Awards - Joseph L.
Melnick (longtime supporter of ASH who
helped conceal the role of CMV in heart
disease); Henry C. Pitot (who redeemed
himself with his paper stating that HPV was
"sufficient" to cause cancer). Council for
Analysis and Projection - Frank J. Rauscher
Jr. of the NCI. Advisory Committee on
Institutional Research Grants: Roswell K.
Boutwell of the CTR. Advisory Committee on
Personnel for Research - Lasker Foundation
Director Purnell W. Choppin and CTR member
Wolfgang Joklik. Advisory Committee on
Virology and Cell Biology - CTR member Peter
K. Vogt. Advisory Committee on Nucleic Acids
- Washington Advisory Group principal C.
Thomas Caskey.
American
Cancer Society audit report, 1974/tobacco
document (pdf, 9 pp)
Did Nazi
Money Help Fund the American Cancer Society?
According to Mae Brussell, "This is a story
of how key Nazis, even as the Wehrmacht was
still on the offensive, anticipated military
disaster and laid plans to transplant nazism,
intact but disguised, in havens in the
West." Brussell implicates OSS chief William
Donovan, along with the Vatican, in the
"safe diaspora" of key Nazis, including
their intelligence operations, the Gehlen
Organization. Gehlen's agent-in-place in the
US is said to have been Otto Albrecht von
Bolschwing, "who had been a captain in
Heinrich Himmler's dreaded SS and Adolph
Eichmann's superior in Europe and
Palestine.... When he entered the U.S. in
1954, he cleverly concealed his Nazi
past.... He became closely associated with
the late Elmer Bobst of Warner-Lambert
Pharmaceutical, a godfather of Richard
Nixon's political career, which brought him
inside Nixon's 1960 campaign for the
presidency."
("The Nazi connection to the John F. Kennedy
Assassination," by Mae Brussell. The Rebel,
1983 Nov 22.)
Mae Brussell
/ Prouty
Elmer Bobst in Nixon's "Kitchen Cabinet"
"Arrayed around the President is a small,
exclusive fraternity of friends outside the
government who are privy to Mr. Nixon's
personal life and who exercise an indirect,
though vital influence on his official
life.... Prominent in that elite coterie are
Elmer H. Bobst, honorary chairman of the
Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co.; Donald M.
Kendall, chairman and chief executive
officer of PepsiCo Inc.; Hobart D. Lewis,
editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest; W.
Clement Stone, Chicago insurance magnate;
Robert H. Abplanalp, inventor of the aerosol
valve; evangelist Billy Graham; Jack Drown,
Los Angeles newspaper and magazine
distributor; and C.G. (Bebe) Rebozo, Florida
realtor and banker." (White House Report/
President's inner circle of friends serves
as influential 'kitchen cabinet.' By Dom
Bonafede. National Journal 1972 Jan. 22.)
Naturally, they are big campaign
contributors and ideologically compatible.
In 1970, Bobst lobbied the President on
behalf of Mary Lasker and Benno C. Schmidt,
managing director of JH Witney & Co., who
had been named chairman of the National
Panel of Consultants on the Conquest of
Cancer to create a special cancer authority
that would not be under the control of the
National Institutes of Health.
The
selection of Vice President Agnew
The Communist Party USA implicates Elmer
Bobst in Richard Nixon's selection of
Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew as his
vice-presidential running mate: "The CEO of
the New Jersey pharmaceutical giant Warner
Chilcott was Elmer Bobst, a heavyweight
contributor to the Republican Party and the
Richard Nixon comeback campaign in 1968. As
the Nixon-Humphrey battle was running tight,
Bobst propositioned Nixon with an offer he
couldn't refuse. For an extra handout to the
GOP coffer, Bobst could name Nixon's
vice-presidential running mate. The two
shook hands in secret. Bobst then approached
an obscure governor of Maryland with the
second half of the deal - veto the pending
legislation and the Veep slot was his. The
rest is history. Spiro Agnew did indeed
exercise his veto, the narrow passage margin
did not allow for an override, and generics
were delayed in the country for several
years. The cost of the Bobst contribution
was overwhelmed by the profits reaped in the
'arrangement.'"
"Uncle
Elmer"
To the Nixon family, Elmer Bobst was much
more than just a wealthy campaign
contributor. At the dedication of The Nixon
Center for Peace and Freedom (housed in the
Elmer and Mamdouha Bobst Building), March 1,
1995 -- at which President william Jefferson
Clinton was the featured speaker -- Tricia
Nixon Cox described Bobst as "An
extraordinary person whose life personified
the idea of being dedicated to worthy causes
was Elmer Holmes Bobst. He was a self-made
man whose intelligence, character, loyalty,
patriotism, courage and generosity in many
areas, including education and cancer
research, made him an embodiment of the
American dream. A mentor and father-figure
to my father in all seasons since 1953,
Elmer Bobst, or Uncle Elmer as Julie and I
called him, was also a singular friend, who
with his wife Mamdouha shared my father's
vision of a more just and peaceful
world...."
And Nixon's old foreign policy advisor Henry
Kissinger said: "Mr. President, ladies and
gentlemen, in the last year of his life no
relationship meant more to President Nixon
than the relationship he established with
President Clinton. It was unexpected. It
would not have been thought possible 20
years earlier when they were on opposite
sides of a deep American division."
Bobst/"The
Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom"
(Nixon and Jews, by Garry Wills. UExpress
Online, 1997). In a letter to Nixon in 1972,
Bobst wrote: "Not any of these people
(anti-war protesters) have a true love for
our country, and unfortunately, most of them
are Jews, and Jews have troubled the world
from the very beginning. If this beloved
country of ours ever falls apart, the blame
rightly should be attributed to the
malicious action of Jews in complete control
of our communications." Never mind that this
same media adored the American Cancer
Society, and slavishly parroted its
propaganda. Also, it was a Jew in the media,
Ann Landers, who played a key role in
mobilizing public support for Mary Lasker's
National Cancer Act of 1971.
White House NCAB Appointments, March 7, 1972
/ tobacco document
National Cancer Advisory Board, 1974 /
tobacco document
Warner-Lambert and the Nicotine Patch
Front group FORCES blames "Big Pharma" for
the anti-smoking movement and ignores the
controlling role of the Lasker lobby. The
patent for nicotine chewing gum was held by
Warner-Lambert, Elmer Bobst's pharmaceutical
company. Its first use in commerce was June
22, 1973. Jed Rose, a co-inventor of the
nicotine patch with Dr. Murray Jarvik, said
that when they tried to find a company
willing to market their product, none were
interested, until the Swiss firm Ciba-Geigy
AG (which merged with Sandoz AG to form
Novartis AG in 1996) began marketing it in
1991. This was 40 years after the
anti-smoking persecution began, and only
after much whining by anti-smoking activists
about the lack of collaboration with their
goals by the pharmaceutical companies.
Inventors/About.com
At the Third World Conference on Smoking and
Health, held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in
New York City in 1975, Jane Francis Emele,
PhD, Director of Biological Research,
American Chicle Division of Warner Lambert
Co., was the only representative of "Big
Pharma." She participated in the Workshop on
Pharmacologic Intervention. However, there
were representatives of Kimberly-Clark
Corp., Celanese Fibers Corp., AMF Inc., and
Cummins Engine Company present. Theodore
Cooper was there, too, and gave the opening
address.
Participants, 3rd World Conference on
Smoking & Health, 1975 / tobacco document
Blaming "Big
Drugs" to Protect the Lasker Syndicate
In 1996, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and
Warner-Lambert entered into a co-marketing
agreement with Pfizer on Lipitor, the
cholesterol-lowering statin, and in 2000,
Pfizer acquired Warner-Lambert. Pfizer
introduced Chantix, a quit-smoking drug that
blocks dopamine receptors.
National
Cancer Advisory Board Appointments, 1972
The appointees include Laurance S.
Rockefeller; Elmer Bobst; Donald E. Johnson,
an Upjohn heir who is an honorary life
member of the American Cancer Society; and
Mary Lasker. Continuing members included
James E. Gilmore Jr. of Gilmore Broadcasting
Corporation, and entertainer Danny Thomas.
NCAB
Members, 1972 / tobacco document
The Citizens' Committee for the Conquest of
Cancer, 1978
The Citizens' Committee for the Conquest of
Cancer was co-founded by Mary Lasker's
crony, Sidney Farber, and co-chaired by
Emerson Foote of the American Cancer
Society, and Solomon Garb, a correspondent
of Mary Lasker between 1969 and 1981. Garb
sent a bullying letter to Curtis H. Judge,
President of Lorillard Inc., claiming that
three unnamed "friends who know a great deal
about the tobacco industry warned me of an
ongoing plan by some PR representatives of
the industry... to attack the National
Cancer Institute, the American Cancer
Society and the entire concept of a national
effort to fight cancer," and demanding that
"the tobacco industry" lobby for "higher
total appropriations to NCI" and that "the
Tobacco Research Institute [sic] should
allocate substantial sums to finding
anticancer drugs in plants." (Garb to Judge,
Sep. 20, 1978.)
Sponsoring members of this slimy group
included William McC. Blair Jr., Mrs.
William McC. Blair Jr., now vice president
of the Lasker Foundation; Elmer H. Bobst; R.
Lee Clark; Mrs. Alice Fordyce, Mary's
sister; James W. Fordyce, Mary's nephew;
Mary's old friend, Leonard Goldenson of
ABC-TV; Mrs. Paul G. Hoffman, aka Anna
Rosenberg; Robert W. Holley of the Salk
Institute; Mathilde Krim; Hollywood producer
Norman Lear; William Regelson, founder of
FIBER, on whose board Mary later served; and
Bernard J. Reis, Treasurer of the Lasker
Foundation.
Citizens'
Committee for the Conquest of Cancer,
1978/tobacco document
Mamdouha Bobst
Mamdouha
Bobst Bio/American University of Beirut
Mrs. Elmer H. Bobst was a Trustee of New
York University. Fellow trustees include
John L. Vogelstein of E.M. Warburg Pincus &
Co., and Laurence Tisch, a Trustee since
1966 and Chairman from 1978 to 1998.
Directors of Tisch's Loews Corp. who were
also trustees of NYU include John Brademas,
president emeritus of NYU and a director of
Loews since 1982; Paul J. Fribourg, Laurence
A. Tisch and his brother, Preston Robert
Tisch.
Board of
Trustees/New York University
Mamdouha Bobst was a Trustee of the New York
University School of Medicine Foundation.
Other Trustees included Alice M. Tisch and
Thomas J. Tisch; David Baltimore, and Edgar
Bronfman Jr. Thomas S. Murphy, former
Chairman and CEO of Capital Cities/ABC, is a
Life Trustee.
NYU School
of Medicine Foundation/New York University
(pdf, 168pp)
Mrs. Bobst was an Honorary Life Member of
the ACS in 2001, along with Mary Lasker's
nephew James W. Fordyce, AHF Trustee LaSalle
D. Leffall, and Charles A. LeMaistre. Former
Rep. Paul G. Rogers was on the Board of
Directors.
2001 ACS
Form 990 / American Cancer Society
(pdf, 114pp)
Mrs. Elmer Holmes Bobst was still on the
Board of Overseers of Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 2002, along
with Mrs. Joseph A. Califano Jr., Ann Dibble
Jordan, Richard Gelb, and Sanford I. Weill.
Laurance S. Rockefeller and James D.
Robinson III were honorary co-chairmen.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr. was Vice Chairman of
Boards, and Chairman of the Board of
Managers of the Sloan-Kettering Institute.
Former National Institutes of Health
Director Harold Varmus, in whose
administration some research on the role of
infection in chronic diseases proceeded at
last, was President and Chief Executive
Officer. Mrs. Charles A. Dana Jr., Mrs.
Thomas L. Kempner, Mrs. Milton Petrie, and
Linda Gosden Robinson were on the 10-woman
Advisory Council of The Society of Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. (MSKCC 2002
Annual Report).
cast 01-19-08
http://www.smokershistory.com/Bobst.htm
•••••••
LOOK WHO'S
BASHING BILL CLINTON, AND THIS IS SUPPOSED
TO BE A LIBERAL WEBSITE:
Stephen C.
Rose
OpEdNews.com
http://www.opednews.com
" ... OK, if Bill Clinton was not such an
operator, he could just raise money for
Kiva.org which is honest and reputable and
makes no deals -- just micro-credit
facilitated by online smarts and a network
of loan-hungry entrepreneurs worldwide. Bill
has talked up Kiva but I am sure it is
nothing to his other charitable ventures.
Nothing about the Clintons is without high
politics and rampant complexity. Compared to
the Clintons, I think Richard Nixon was
probably an amateur, a mere babe in the
woods. ... "
(Disclosure: I knew Nixon. My late dad took
Nixon into his law firm at the behest of the
late Elmer Bobst ... )
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_stephen__080408_mining_the_clinton_g.htm