Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Regino Truffin, 29, elder son of Nieves Perez Chaumont de Truffin Walsh; of a liver ailment; in Marianao, Cuba. His long illness delayed for more than a year the marriage of his mother to Montana's late Senator Thomas James Walsh (TIME, March...
...minority on record-the War Veterans. The lobbies of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars whipped through the Bonus (1924) and forced its part-payment (1931), both over Presidential vetoes. Spanish War pensions were upped and widened. The presumption date whereby veterans could legally attribute any ailment to World War service and thus draw full military compensation kept moving forward through the years. Finally a browbeaten Congress voted to compensate all veterans disabled in civil life, with pensions for all widows and orphans of all veterans as the next objective. The cost of these accumulating pension payments...
...lasted some 45 min. All other patients were moved from the third floor of the wing where Mr. Ford lay. The fact behind a fond Ford boast, "I have never been sick a day in my life," was counted on to speed his recovery. Henry Ford's last ailment: a sprained back in 1927, suffered when the Ford car he was driving through Dearborn was forced off the road, down an embankment...
Comparatively inactive in Curtis Publishing Co., snowy-bearded Publisher Curtis, 82, became more quiescent following the death of his wife last May (TIME, June 6). He, too, suffers from a heart ailment. Although he did take himself to Joseph Early Widener's "millionaire dinner" last month (TIME, Oct. 24) he spends most of his time aboard the Lyndonia, much of his shore time at the Downtown Club, which he helped to found, in his own Philadelphia Public Ledger building. Such small time as Publisher Curtis has for business, he gives to the Curtis-Martin newspapers (Ledgers, Inquirer, New York...
...stood it as long as I could, then I went to the telephone and asked a specialist wrhat might be the matter with the baby. He suggested that I turn her over my knee with her little feet to the fire and pat her back. ... In time, the disturbing ailment in her 'tummy' removed itself and I had a most peaceful infant who finally fell asleep and was put back in her crib, and I rejoined my guests one and one-half hours after their arrival...