Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, a Mrs. Arthur B. Huey was being treated for asthma. A capsule attached to a cord and containing 25 milligrams ($1,700 worth) of radium was inserted in her nostril. The cord became detached. A sharp intake of breath popped the capsule into the throat, where it was swallowed. Purgatives were unavailing but after several days the capsule was located inside Mrs. Huey by Xray. An operation was undertaken, successfully. In spite of the capsule having remained in the body so long there was no sign of the severe intestinal burns which had been feared...
...Jacob Raskob of Wilmington, Del., chairman of the Democratic National Committee, as a member of the finance committee of General Motors Corp.* Donaldson Brown of Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., was appointed to succeed Mr. Raskob as finance committee chairman. Died. Marjorie Cassidy Baer, 29, of Manhattan, wife of Arthur ("Bugs") Baer, Hearstpaper funnyman; of typhoid fever; in Manhattan...
...credit. The other successful Juniors in the order of their election are as follows: James Elmer Barrett '30, of Leomister; Guy Constant Holbrook Jr. '30, of 'Clifton; Francis Rene Galbraith Giddens '30 of Ottawa, Ontario; Gardner Lothrop Lewis Jr. '30 of Swampscott; Bernard Barnes '30, of New Hartford; and Arthur Lithgow Devens Jr. '30 of Boston...
...Engaged. Arthur Schulte of San Francisco, son of Tobacco Store Tycoon David A. Schulte of Manhattan; to one Luise Meyer of San Francisco...
...from Pittsburgh. One other balloon came down in Pennsylvania. Seven others descended across the broad expanse of upper New York. After 36 hours, all but two had been heard from: Navy No. 1, piloted by Lieut. Thomas G. W. Settle and Ensign Wilfred Bushnell; and Detroit Times, piloted by Arthur G. Schlosser and E. J. Hill. Far beyond the marks of any of the others, Navy 1 came to earth, nearly 43 hours after starting, at Canavoy, Prince Edward Island. More hours passed, with the Detroit Times no man on earth knew where...