Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like Willis Van Devanter and George Sutherland before him, took advantage of a 1937 judiciary act, the ghost of Franklin Roosevelt's ambitious Court Plan-permitting Justices with ten years' service to retire on their full $20,000 salary after 70. Whether he did so for his health, or to head a world-wide crusade for less fortunate Jews, or because his friend Felix Frankfurter was at last at hand to carry on his judicial tradition in the Court, Louis Brandeis did not say. When his letter was released later in the afternoon, he refused to discuss...
Last week Wal sent his cohorts into a dinner of the precious Wine and Food Society where, as Wal says, "a bunch of gourmets were holding a bloody gorge." Banners accused: YOU FEAST WHILE WE STARVE. At a banquet at which Minister of Health Walter E. Elliot was-speaking on leisure, Wal's men appeared with signs reading: LEISURE IS NO PLEASURE. They crowded into a white-tie feast attended by Civilian Defense Chief Sir John Anderson, flopped in the foyer like defenseless citizens in an air raid, and shouted for work on air raid precautions projects...
...priestly habits. The Holy Father was comatose, his pulse weakly fluttering. Dr. Filippo Rocchi became suddenly alarmed, aroused the Pope's Secret Chamberlains in a nearby room. Present in the modest chamber, in which the Pope could gaze upon a portrait of the longtime protectress of his health, St. Therese of Lisieux, gathered a hushed assemblage: lean, austere Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, Camillo Cardinal Caccia-Dominioni, the Pope's protege and master of ceremonies, Count Franco Ratti, the Pope's nephew, Governor Camillo Serafini of Vatican City. The Pope's regular doctor...
...opening of the conclave to 15 days. Last week it looked as if Cardinal O'Connell, 79 and ailing, wintering in Nassau, might miss his third conclave. At news of the Pope's death he booked passage north on an airplane, then caceled it for his health's sake, embarked for Manhattan on a ship...
Last week Carmi Thompson and his badgered associates finally won a clean bill of health. On the basis of an independent audit by a special master. Judge William E. Baker declared Fidelity fully solvent, dismissed the petition...