Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Arthur Mastick Hyde, 70, tart-tongued Secretary of Agriculture under Hoover (1929-33), second Republican Governor of Missouri (1921-25), lifelong Prohibitionist; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Died. Baron Henri de Rothschild, 75. French financier, physician, philanthropist and viniculturist; of a heart ailment; near Lausanne, Switzerland. Probably the most noteworthy of the Rothschilds, Baron Henri won respect for his work on infants' diseases, on milk as a food, and on the radium treatment of cancer (he set up the famed Pierre Curie Institute for radium research). He also found time to write plays for the Paris stage...
...March of Dimes (infantile paralysis) was voted about the same as last year--11.3 percent--and three newly-listed charities also shared heavily in preferred disposition. The Cancer Fund was favored with 17.3 percent, International Exchange Scholarships with 16.5, and the Tuberculosis Fund with...
...hospital, he kept up his column with the aid of a dictating machine, datelined it "Cell 308." Some of his readers thought he had eye trouble; his sight had been failing for a long time. Not till three months ago did Pat tell his readers that he had cancer. Even then he tried to give them humor, albeit tightlipped. He wrote: "[The cancer] was near the base of the spine. . . . Getting it out involved considerable damage to adjacent and innocent property. ... It was as if a crew of firemen were trying to get a safe . . . out of the third story...
Died. Gregorio Martinez Sierra, 66, prolific Spanish novelist-playwright, best known abroad for his Cradle Song (Eva Le Gallienne starred in it during the 1926-27 Broadway season); of cancer; in Madrid, 15 days after ending more than a decade of self-imposed exile...