Word: bronchopneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Isaac Fuld, 74, manufacturer (with his late brother William) of the Ouija* Board; of bronchopneumonia; in Baltimore, Md. Before the peak of demand, Brother William enlarged their factories, claimed their product had told...
Died. Dr. Livingston Farrand, 72, modest, beloved president-emeritus of Cornell University; of bronchopneumonia and empyema; in Manhattan. A public health authority, a physician by training, he took leave of absence from the presidency of the University of Colorado (1914-19) to direct a civilian war against tuberculosis in France, stayed to guide Red Cross rehabilitation of millions of eastern and central European children...
Died. Ernest ("Ernie") Hare, 55, baritone half of the Happiness Boys, oldtime radio harmony team; of bronchopneumonia; in Queens, N. Y. Old hands in show business, Ernie Hare and Tenor Billy Jones were hired by WJZ in 1921 for a song-and-patter experiment. Next year, as the Happiness Boys, singing the virtues of Happiness Candy, engaging in ad lib patter and chatter, they became the first nationally known radio team...
Sixty-six-year-old Harold Fowler McCormick, millionaire head of the Chicago harvester clan, has recently been seriously ill with bronchopneumonia. Last week attorneys for Mrs. Olive Randolph Colby, Kansas City widow who is suing him for $2,000,000 (breach of promise), asked that the trial date be advanced. Reason: because of a crowded court calendar, the plaintiff saw "grave danger" that the defendant might not live until the case is reached...
Died. May Irwin (Mrs. Kurt Eisfeldt), 76, famed oldtime comedienne, the toast of Broadway in the early 1900s; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. Her only cinema appearance (the 50-foot May Irwin-John C. Rice Kiss, which Thomas A. Edison made) shocked the '90s. Some of the famed songs she introduced: Hear Dem Bells, After the Ball Is Over...