[1] Before 1913, Hart had managed the Washington branch of the Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Growers' association and was advocating for using some of the same procedures for opening a cannery in Terra Bella, California.
Funded by Herrold's radio laboratory, he found that he could no longer afford the station and gave it to the First Baptist Church of San Jose, California.
The church realized that they would not be able to afford the day-to-day expenses of running a radio station and asked Herrold to assume the job of sales manager as he was so well known in the community.
[13] Hart and Smith learned that they were interfering with the tradition of distant listening also called a distant-fishing period, which had been held weekly between 7:30 and 8:00pm.
Hart argued that KQW could put San Jose on the map if the critics could give him more time to grow an audience with farmers.
[10] Because KQW (now KCBS) recognizes 1909 as its beginning (when Herrold got his very first radio license), it is known as "The World's First Broadcasting Station" and celebrated its 100th birthday in 2009 with a series of events over the year in the Bay Area.
[10][16] In 1944 Hart ran as a Republican in California's 11th congressional district, which consisted of Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties.
[1] The CEM leased out and used devices to diagnose and cure medical afflictions based on the work of Abrams who called this system radionics.
[19] According to the EMF website Hart became interested in radionics when his wife Eva, who had had surgery for her breast cancer but was dying wanted to use a (now common) frequency device to cure her.
[1] According to Stephen Barrett the EMF in 1954 were ordered "by a U.S. District Court to stop distributing thirteen devices with false claims that they could diagnose and treat hundreds of diseases and conditions".
The NHF website describes this as "violated[ing] freedom of the press by declaring it illegal for health food stores to give away, lend or sell books and reprints to inform customers about their products".
[21] Author Gilbert Geis in his book White-Collar Criminal describes that the clinic would accept a sample of blood mailed to them on a piece of paper and was inserted in something called a Radioscope which was supposed to measure "emanations" of diseases.
When the wand would stick to the stomach, a reaction would happen and the machine operator would know the "exact identity, location and significance of any disease affecting the patient – perhaps thousands of miles away".
[19] Martin Gardner wrote in 1957 that the FDA had "obtained an injunction against interstate shipment of the devices" and determined that the machines contained "nothing but low powered short wave radio transmitters and coils capable of producing a weak magnetic effect".
A sample send to the EMF from a woman's blood was told after testing that she suffered from '"systematic toxemia"' yet what the government had submitted was a "spot of coal-tar dye".
Hart, according to Gardner, "raised the usual howls of persecution by the medical trusts and vowed he would continue his great work in Germany and Mexico if necessary".
Then out of all of it comes the new truth to become a part of us… Thus we receive new facts to make up our proud possession of knowledge.After the AMA ordered the Electronic Medical Foundation to close, Hart founded and managed the National Health Federation in 1955.
[26] Eva Hart died January 27, 1962, in Palo Alto, California; she had been one of the founders and board members of The Salinas Rescue Mission.
[28] A research project using "low level radio frequency energy was applied to cancerous mice and the effect measured by tumor growth and health of the specimen was completed at the South Dakota School of Mines.