Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Persuaded to write a 32,000-word confession, at trial became the first major Communist defendant to repudiate a confession. Disposition: hanged. Dimitrov did not last either. Displeased with Dimitrov's own Titoist tendencies, the Kremlin called him to Moscow for "medical treatment." Final entry: dead of "liver ailment...
...half-brother of Newspaper Titan E. W. Scripps), and founder (in 1920) of the world's first commercial radio station, Detroit's WWJ-first to broadcast U.S. election returns, one of the first with symphony concerts, play-by-play accounts of ball games; of a heart ailment; at Lake Orion, Mich...
Died. Lewis P. ("Lew") Reese, 59, granite-jawed Scio, Ohio (pop. 1,152) pottery manufacturer who turned an abandoned mill into a multimillion-dollar small-town bonanza; of a kidney ailment; in Pittsburgh. A West Virginia pottery worker, Reese scraped together $8,000 in 1932 to buy Scio's plant, mass-produced 5? teacups, saucers and plates to become the world's biggest producer of whiteware...
Died. The Right Rev. Cameron J. Davis, 78, retired bishop (1931-47) of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Western New York; of a heart ailment; in Buffalo...
Died. Archbishop Thomas Joseph Walsh, 78, spiritual leader of 1,077,935 New Jersey Catholics in the Archdiocese of Newark (fifth largest in the U.S.); of a heart ailment; in South Orange...