Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, he was out of the news. Suffering from a weakened heart, Big Ed took things easy at his own estate and at the Greenwich, Conn, estate of his wife's brother, Juan Trippe, president of Pan American Airways. There this week, nine days after his 49th birthday, death came to friendly Ed Stettinius...
...towns. Incidentally he argued how important he thought it was for him to go back to the Senate ("I am the most formidable single opponent that the Russians have"), but principally he lambasted a political philosophy which he said would put the U.S. people "on leash from birth to death to a federal bureaucracy...
...great bore to all but the men of genius whom the Life Force urges to greater and greater heights of self-knowledge and desire to improve the lot of humanity. In Hell, however, the conventional and dutiful are quite at home. The ephemeral, which they have sought before death, is in great abundance...
...health services go, the city is somewhat lax. For instance, the death rate at the Boston City Hospital, according to a Finance Commission report, has increased 27 per cent over the past six years; the death rate for premature babiesis nearly 70 per cent whereas the average death rate for such babies throughout New England is 35 per cent. Boston has a system of health units around the city that were established by Curley but, again, according to the Finance Commission, the pay is not high enough in those units to encourage the employment of competent personnel...
...gift came to the University following the death of the last of the men who held life interests in McKay's estate. The University had already received over $7,100,000 from the estate...