Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Oscar Stanton De Priest, 80, first Negro to serve on Chicago's city council (1915-17), first of his race ever sent by Northern voters to the House of Representatives*(three-term Congressman from Chicago's "Black Belt," 1929-35); of a kidney ailment; in Chicago. In Washington he worked unceasingly for a national anti-lynching law. His wife and Mrs. Herbert Hoover scandalized the South when the First Lady received her at a White House tea; shortly thereafter Alabama's late Senator "Tom-Tom" Heflin calculated that to "punch De Priest in the nose" would...
Died. Charles Keck, 75, onetime assistant to Sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens, and heir to his heroic style; of a heart ailment; in Carmel, N.Y. Among his best-known statues: Father Duffy, a Times Square fixture; Lewis & Clark, in Charlottesville, Va.; Huey Long, in Baton Rouge, La.; Andrew Jackson, in Kansas City, commissioned by Jackson County's Presiding Judge Harry S. Truman...
...descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, the Sultan wields great influence among the world's 300 million Moslems. In his youth he was fond of fast automobiles and purebred Arab horses, seemed an ideal stooge. But in his late 205, Sidi Mohammed became a semi-invalid from an intestinal ailment, took to reading English constitutional history and books about the past glories of Morocco...
...confused with the Spanish Civil War's La Pasionaria, last reported in southern Russia's Tbilisi undergoing treatment for a kidney ailment...
Died. Samuel Rufus Rosoff, 68, rags-to-riches construction tycoon ($50 million worth of Manhattan subways); after an operation for an intestinal ailment; in Baltimore. In 1894, at the age of twelve, he worked his way to New York from Russia, worked his way to the top with some powerful boosts from friendly Democratic politicos, became a millionaire playboy and philanthropist. Something of a bulldozer himself, he boasted that he got ahead through brawn, not brains: "What the hell. I can always hire college graduates to do the pencil-and-paper work...