Word: emphysema
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sing the great coloratura roles (Rosina, Lucia, Lakmé) with both the Metropolitan and Chicago Operas earning up to $15,000 a performance while on tour, retired in the 1930s to California but continued through her many recordings to haunt opera buffs and reigning coloraturas alike; of emphysema; in La Jolla, Calif...
Died. Carl Atwood Hatch, 73, Democratic Senator from New Mexico from 1933 to 1949, author of the 1939 and 1940 Hatch Acts, designed to prevent "pernicious political activities" in national campaigns; of pulmonary emphysema; in Albuquerque. The Hatch Acts limit annual party expenditures to $3,000,000, forbid all save top-level federal employees from politicking or being dunned for contributions. But campaign committees find ways to evade the ceiling, and wild horses cannot stop every good man, civil servant or no, from coming to the aid of his party...
...devoted his life to the plight of the American Indian, eloquently presenting it first in his 1929 novel, Laughing Boy, then as longtime head of the Association on Indian Affairs, lobbying ceaselessly to win the Indians less fuzzy paternalism and more schools, medical care and opportunity; of pulmonary emphysema; in Albuquerque...
Early test results at week's end showed that 10% to 15% of the Congressmen had some breathing impairment. It would take time to find out how many of them had hitherto unsuspected emphysema. In any case, officials of the Alabama Tuberculosis Association and its affiliates felt sure that as a result of the demonstration, Congressmen would be more likely to blow hot than cold on appropriations for lung-disease research...
...came out of investigations into the stock market crash with a clean slate (unlike his brother Richard, former president of the Stock Exchange, who was convicted of embezzlement), after World War II started Morgan on diversification that led to its 1959 merger with Guaranty Trust; of a pulmonary emphysema (see MEDICINE); in Manhattan...