After being struck by an automobile in NYC during American Prohibition W.S.C. procured this Doctor's Note:
—Chartwell Trust via VinePair
If interested see Churchill's 1932 New York Times commissioned article, "My New York Misadventure". He was quite highly paid for his writing, in this case and elsewhere. From our introduction to 2013's "Why Aren’t Top Journalists Rich?":
It wasn't always thus.
In 1898 young Winston Churchill, after a couple other writing gigs (Daily Graphic, Telegraph) went off to war with a commission to write for The Morning Post. He produced thirteen articles between September 23 and October 8, 1898 for which he was paid fifteen pounds each. According to the ever handy BoE inflation calculator that is the equivalent of £1651.03 per, or £21463.39 for the lot, $33,053 in today's reserve currency for 15 days work. Not rich but not bad.
More on Churchill another time but here are a couple more factoids: He charged a half-crown (2 1/2 shillings, $11.38) per word in the 1930's, in 1936 his writing income was the equivalent of $800,000 now.
Again, not rich but able to afford his Pol Roger.
Then he went on to become the highest paid scribbler of his day and did some other stuff too....
