Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geneva, at the Commission on Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt diagnosed the basic ailment. Americans, she thought, "are not completely sure of our ability to make democracy work...
Died. Anthony William Hall, 53, village police inspector, pretender to the throne of Britain as King Anthony I (he claimed direct descent from Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn); of a heart ailment; in Little Dewchurch, England. Hall, who leaves no heir (his older brother Don, once renounced all claims to kingship in the event of Anthony's success), campaigned for the throne with dignity but persistence, addressed some 2,000 outdoor meetings. At various times he sent a notice to King George V to quit, plumped for the return of the American colonies to Britain, and tried to build...
Died. Lieut. Commander Allan Ramsey Wurtele (rhymes with "fur tell"). U.S.N. (ret.), 54, pioneer in mechanized cane-farming; of a heart ailment; in Mix, La. Wurtele invented a mechanical cane-harvester, and developed a process for converting sugar into synthetic rubber, attracted wider attention in 1939 when he proposed a plan to appease Hitler by buying him Danzig and the Polish Corridor for $70 million (Wurtele offered...
Died. Major General Alexander Day Surles, 61, leathery, bowlegged ex-cavalryman who ran the Army's Bureau of Public Relations from 1941 to 1945; of a pulmonary ailment; in Washington. Tethered to the Pentagon after 34 years of service, mostly with tactical outfits, Old Horseman Day Surles champed at the bit all through World War II, did his creditable best with the vast, tape-tangled B.P.R., silently took the rap for many a public relations bungle by underlings and superiors...
Died. Tristan Bernard, 81, large-nosed, spade-bearded "last of the boulevardiers," Parisian novelist and playwright; of a heart ailment; in Paris. Besides 50-odd novels, Bernard wrote more than 40 musicals and plays, most of the latter successful, none profound, all witty. His Exile was probably the shortest play ever staged...