Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Netherlands, mother of Queen Wilhelmina; of bronchitis; at The Hague. After the death of King William III in 1890. she acted as regent for eight years. Died- Jacob Seibert, 76, arduous and Ciceronian editor of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle, dean of Wall Street weeklies; following an operation for cancer; in Brooklyn, N. Y.¶ Died. Robert Alexander Long, 83, board chairman of Long-Bell Lumber Co., founder of Longview, Wash., model city; after an operation for intestinal obstruction; in Kansas City. At 22, Lumberman Long went to Kansas City, entered the hay business. The hay he could not sell...
...ridicule." In the House of Commons moon-faced Winston Churchill, a jingoist since he first marched off to the Boer War at the age of 22, roared the loudest: "An entirely new situation has been created by rubbing the sore of the disarmament conference until it has become a cancer, and largely by the uprush of the Nazi movement." Mr. Churchill demanded four things: 1) denunciation of the London Naval Treaty (1930) so that Britain could build any type of ship she desired; 2) an air force equal to that of any power "within air range" (i. e. equal...
Walter Wellman never went aloft again. He wrote prolifically for a few years, then lapsed into complete obscurity in his Manhattan home. Few months ago cancer of the liver laid...
...Henry Askew Barton of the American Institute of Physics pointed out the possibilities for cancer therapy. Instead of inserting costly radium capsules into malignant tumors, doctors may soon use substances made radioactive artificially...
Heredity. Father died at the age of 49 of some acute respiratory disease. Mother died of cancer at the age of 82. His half-brother Lawrence died at the age of 34 of consumption...