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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minnesota's Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson fell ill last year, was taken to the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., where he underwent an "exploratory" operation. Although his illness was never specified, most Minnesotans were sure it was cancer of the stomach. By last April he was sufficiently better to file as candidate for the U. S. Senate on the Farmer-Labor ticket. Three weeks ago he was allowed to go to his summer home at Gull Lake, with a tube inserted in his intestines through which he took food. Last week, suddenly taking a turn for the worse...
...Sheriff miserably sat in her automobile 50 yd. away. Assistant Hangman Hanna adjusted the noose. Unlike Rapist De Boe, who was permitted to quarrel for an hour with his victim, Negro Bethea had nothing to say. "Man, he's there!" whispered an admiring spectator. The hot-dog sellers fell quiet...
...Hall of Ambassadors of the Alhambra in Granada squatted last week marooned U. S. tourists watching troops of the Revolution taking over the proletarian quarter below. A Government air bomb fell in the garden of the Hotel Washington Irving in which six U. S. tourists were staying. Only Spaniards were killed. One, an expectant mother, convulsively gave birth to two dead babes as she expired. Later the Vicomte de Sibour, with a plane borrowed from London's Drygoods Sportsman H. Gordon Selfridge Jr. (TIME, Aug. 17), began taking off tourists, four at a time. To rescue the 19 remaining...
...Denmark in 1683, when she was 19, and had 17 children in 25 years, before George's death and the menopause brought to a doubly sure conclusion her attempts to produce an acceptable heir to carry on the Stuart succession. At the mere sight of George she fell pregnant; but of all these children only six lived long enough to be given names." Queen Anne was a heavy drinker. Her many pregnancies caused varicose veins in her legs. One vein ulcerated, producing toxaemia and death...
Louis XV died of smallpox after "a Bacchanalian party at which a dairymaid was bathed, combed and perfumed, and placed in his bed. . . ." Next morning he fell ill. The incident, says Dr. Kemble, "was not the source of Louis' infection, for a period of some twelve days elapses between the date of contact with smallpox and the appearance of the first signs of illness...