Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Clem Whitaker Sr., 62, lanky, white-maned California public relations operator who, with his pretty wife Leone Baxter, injected P.R. razzle-dazzle into U.S. politics to a previously unmatched degree; of a respiratory ailment; in San Francisco. Insisting that they promoted only what they believed in, Whitaker & Baxter were on the winning side of all but a handful of the 85 political campaigns they handled, helped vault Earl Warren and Goodie Knight into California's gubernatorial mansion, ran the National Professional Committee for Eisenhower and Nixon in 1952 "to rally the people against the dangers of socialism...
Died. Sheridan Downey, 77, two-term (1939-50) Democratic Senator from California, a wealthy lawyer who contracted an uncontrollable social itch in Depression days and sought to alleviate it with humanitarian but haphazard plans for economic reform; after a long heart ailment; in San Francisco. The son of a Civil War colonel, Downey started out as a Republican in Wyoming, migrated to Sacramento and the EPIC (End Poverty in California) movement of Author-Crusader Upton Sinclair, then as a regular Democrat supported Dr. Francis Townsend's scheme for old-age pensions and the "$30 Every Thursday" campaign...
Died. Sergio Osmeña. 83. second president (1944-46) of the pre-independence Philippine Commonwealth, a shrewd, patient public servant who contributed a rare note of moderation to Philippine politics for nearly 40 years; of a heart and kidney ailment; in Manila. A landowner's son of part-Chinese ancestry, Osmeña began his campaign for Philippine independence after the suppression of the 1899 insurrection against U.S. rule, rose from speaker of the first Philippine Assembly to vice president of the Commonwealth, succeeded to the presidency of the Philippine government-in-exile when fiery Manuel Quezon died...
Matches & Railroads. When World War I started, Monnet was rejected for the French army because of a kidney ailment (nephritis), entered the French Ministry of Commerce as a junior official. At the time, France and Britain were bidding against each other for badly needed raw materials, despite the fact they were allies, and no one seemed to know what to do-except Monnet, who proposed an Anglo-French high commission to coordinate procurement and supplies. By war's end, Monnet had made such a brilliant impression in Paris and London that, though only 31, he was appointed Deputy Secretary...
...French-modeled gendarmerie, Serraj had a hammer lock hold on the country through control of its 15,000-man police force and an army of informers. Strongman Serraj beat and imprisoned thousands of Syrians. So efficient were his spies that garrulous Syrians learned to speak in whispers, developing an ailment known as "Syrian twitch"-a nervous compulsion to glance over their shoulders when talking...