Word: cholera
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...apple orchards"-along with that most distinguished Bolshevik, Comrade Moisel Kalmanovich. He until two months ago was Commissar for State Grain and Livestock Farms for the entire Soviet Union, has now been jailed on charges that he ordered Soviet scientists to castrate breeding bulls and inoculate cattle with cholera germs. Finally White Russia's recently executed Red Army commander, General Ieronim Petrovich Uborevich, was described last week as having been "little short of a fiend incarnate," while the railways, textile mills and collective farms of White Russia were reported "infested with Fascist spies and wreckers...
...come home, got back about 5 o'clock, found home to be the better place." When Philadelphia's Forty-Niners sailed down the Delaware in the Susan Owens, "Sep" tootled encouragingly in the band that saw them off. In spite of the city's cholera plague that year and the Great Fire of the next, "Sep" Winner began to prosper, was able to open a music shop and publishing house. At 23 he wrote his first important song, How Sweet Are the Roses, under the name of Alice Hawthorne. He followed it with such lyrics as What...
...women, had been sent by an idealistic nation to civilize the new little brown brothers not with Krag-Jorgensens but with schoolbooks. Their crowning accomplishment was the training of the nucleus of 25,000 English-speaking Filipino teachers who now staff the island schools. Those Thomasites who stayed, weathered cholera and plague, married, raised families and survived into the Philippine Commonwealth, are today a dwindling group of oldsters, heroes as near forgotten as any in U. S. history. So lightly held are they in the land to which they have given their lives and whose civil servants they have been...
...which Dr. Addinell Hewson, Professor of Anatomy in Temple University Dental School, is secretary. Further exceptions are made in the cases of bodies of U. S. soldiers, sailors and marines, Pennsylvania militiamen, and travelers; and persons dying of "smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis, bubonic plague, typhus, yellow fever, cholera, leprosy, anthrax, glanders, erysipelas. Alcoholics, overweight bodies, mutilated or decomposed bodies must be buried by public authority because unfit...
...children at a time, spending weeks on horseback and at times paddling his own canoe through the jungle. He visited a colony of Catholic lepers alone, his guides dreading the plague spot. With his own strong arms he dug the grave of a fellow bishop he found dead of cholera and deserted by his servants. He opened schools and missions, imported clergy, sisters and monks to staff them. Finally, instead of going to court over questions of property, Bishop Dougherty built up Filipino public opinion against the time Obispo Aglipay should bring suit, guessing rightly that Aglipay would lose...