Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Senator La Follette was reported ill with influenza. He is 68 and his health no longer what it was once. It is even possible that considerations of health may keep him out of the Presidential race next year. If influenza should keep him from the opening of Congress, he will be there, represented in spirit by his two lieutenants?Senator Norris of Nebraska and Representative John M. Nelson of Wisconsin...
That he placed his personal chauffeur on the State Health Department payroll...
That he issued a $10,000 deficiency certificate for the State Health Department when no deficiency existed...
...even reported that he had resigned and that the elevation was the only way Premier Baldwin had of covering up dissension within the Cabinet. At any rate, Lord Robert did state that he would not contest his seat for Hitchin in the forthcoming elections on account of his health. It was on account of his health, which requires him to avoid great exertion, that he was promoted to the House of Lords...
...after ten years of preparation, Charles Montagu Doughty, poor, not in the best of health, alone, began a journey through the desert portions of Arabia that was to last two years, bring him into contact with tribes hostile to Europeans, subject him to the rigors of a life as severe and comfortless as that of an eremite. Solitude, the blinding heat of the desert, thirst, hunger, every weariness of the flesh he endured. Moreover, he did not attempt to pass among the Arabs in any disguise, but, wherever he went, bluntly proclaimed himself an Englishman and a Christian. Supporting himself...