Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Denied you death and so denied you life...
...arrangement effected years ago, the press stood no death watch on Rockefeller as it does on other aged and ailing celebrities. Instead, his Manhattan public relations counsel, T. J. Ross (successor to Ivy Lee), telephoned the news to major press agencies...
...live to be 100. With the same serene confidence in his destiny that once made him master of the nation's oil industry and the world's first billionaire, he believed he would achieve his goal. But last week, as it must to all men, Death came at the low hour of 4:05 a. m. to John Davison Rockefeller at "The Casements" his winter home in Ormond Beach...
...days before his death, he complained of feeling tired but his physician, Dr. H. L. Merryday, did not consider him in danger. Late Saturday night he slipped into a coma, never recovered. His last words were: "Raise me up a little bit." None of the Rockefeller family was with him. John D. Jr., his only son, was at Pocantico Hills near Tarrytown, N. Y. Mrs. Alta Rockefeller Prentice, his only living daughter, was at her estate at Williamstown, Mass. At the bedside in the air-conditioned chamber were Mrs. Fannie Evans, the cousin who acted as his hostesshousekeeper; his longtime...
...rest of his wealth, including his estates, was transferred to his heirs, principally John D. Jr. At the time of death John D. Rockefeller was probably worth only a few million...