Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis F. Fieser for a study of organic chemicals which produce cancer compounds; H. O'Neill Mencken for the fifth Harvard archaeological expedition in Ireland, to conclude the study of the Iron Age and to pursue that of the Early Christian period...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. last week gave $3,000,000 in cash and securities and $900,000 in land to build a new cancer hospital in mid-Manhattan across the street from his Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. The building will house Manhattan's Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer & Allied Diseases...
Ewing, whose cancer research at Memorial Hospital has done most to combat this disease in the U. S., has repeatedly asked for a $10,000,000 cancer research institution in Manhattan. With such an institution and five similar ones in five other major cities, he claims that oncologists can eventually conquer cancer which, by killing one person in every thousand each year, ranks second as a cause of death in the U. S.&* The present old cancer hospital takes care of 325 patients a day, has some 11,000 active cases of cancer on its outpatient rolls. The new hospital...
Died. Humorist Finley Peter Dunne, 68, creator of the famed fictional seriocomic seer "Mr. Dooley"; of cancer of the throat; in Manhattan. A Chicago journalist, in 1892 Dunne patterned "Mr. Dooley" after one James McGarry, whose bar he frequented. With his pungent comments on public figures and affairs ("Politics ain't a bean bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childher and pro-hybitionists's do well to keep out iv it."), Mr. Dooley was for 20 years a national institution...
Died, Dr. William Bradley Coley, 74. famed abdominal surgeon, originator of the theory that cancer is an inherent microorganism; of an intestinal infection; in Manhattan...