Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, 77, Prussian commander of German armies under Hitler from the invasion of Poland to the Battle of the Bulge; of a circulatory ailment; in Hanover, Germany (see INTERNATIONAL...
Died. Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, 65, son-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm II, father of Queen Frederika of Greece and head of the House of Hanover; of a liver ailment; at Marienburg Castle, Hanover, Germany...
...Politburo when he died in 1945. They also "took advantage of the illness" of Strongman Andrei Zhdanov, creator of the postwar Cominform and the rumored heir to Stalin, who died in mysterious circumstances in 1948 at the age of 52. "The criminals . . . incorrectly established the diagnosis of his ailment, concealing that he suffered from myocardial infarction, prescribed a regime that was contraindicated in the case of so serious an illness, and thereby brought about the death of Comrade Zhdanov...
Stillman merely identified the ailment as "gastronomic" and refused to place the blame for the sudden outburst of stomach trouble on any particular cause...
Died. Albert V. Moore, 72, cofounder and president of Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc., one of the world's largest passenger-cargo fleets (37 ships); of a heart ailment; in Queens...