Word: ailments
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Died. Norman Kerry, 60, dashing hero of silent films (The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame); of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. In 1939 Kerry enlisted in the French Foreign Legion under the pseudonym Heinrich van der Kerry of Rotterdam, saw action on the Maginot Line, returned to the U.S. in 1941 after the fall of France...
Died. Dr. Joseph Wirth, 76, Chancellor of two German governments (1921 and 1922), signer of the German-Russian friendship pact at Rapallo in 1922, winner of the Stalin Peace Prize for 1955; of a heart ailment; in Freiburg, Germany...
Died. Sir James Hamet Dunn, 81, Canadian financier; of a heart ailment; in St. Andrews, N.B. As a young lawyer, Dunn edged his way into corporate financing, was soon selling up to $10 million worth of securities a day and pocketing daily commissions up to $60,000. U.S. Banker Otto Kahn called him "a greater financier than all of us." Britain awarded him a baronetcy (one of the few hereditary titles ever given a Canadian) for his World War I services in halting shipments of neutral nickel to Germany. In 1932, by investing a mere...
Clinical Chemistry); of a heart ailment; in Wallingford, Conn. Dismissed in 1953 by the U.S. Loyalty Review Board as part-time consultant (about ten days a year) to the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. Peters held that he had a constitutional right to face his nameless accusers, fought his case to the Supreme Court. The outcome: the court ducked the constitutional issue, found that the board did not have the authority to review Peters' case, since he had been cleared twice previously...
Died. Charles Edwin Mitchell, 78, onetime top financier who lost an estimated fortune of $30 million in 1929, disclosed in testimony before the Senate Currency and Banking Committee in 1933 that he owed the U.S. Government $850,000 in back taxes; of a circulatory ailment; in Manhattan. Mitchell refused to declare himself bankrupt, as an investment banker (Blyth & Co.) made a startling financial comeback which enabled him to pay off his reported $12 million debts...