Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich, mighty Tom Pendergast got into so queasy a mess. According to the prosecution, Boss Tom wagered $2,000,000, lost $600,000 on horse races in 1935 alone. "It has been a mania with him," said Defense Attorney (and Democratic County Chairman) John G. Madden. Lawyer Madden pleaded heart trouble as reason for a light sentence: "Imprisonment would mean death. He can't survive if he enters a cell . . . . Here we have death in life. . . . I ask the utmost clemency...
Fifth Day. It was not until the trip's fifth day, however, that Their Majesties really got taken to Canada's heart, and when they did, it was to experience a spirit they had not met before, a hearty blend of U. S. hail-fellowship and a reassuring, yeoman love of King and Country that was truly British. This man-to-man meeting occurred in Connaught Square at the unveiling of the Canadian national war memorial. There was a reveille, the King placed a wreath at the foot of the shaft, tall redcoats holding standards stepped away...
Died. James Hardy, 64, famed aerialist; of heart disease; in Toronto. In 1896 he wire-walked across Niagara Falls. Though not the first,† Foolhardy Hardy was one of the rashest, capered, balanced on chairs...
Died. Carl Raymond Gray, 71, railroad executive, onetime president of Union Pacific (1920-37); of heart disease; in Washington. Mr. Gray's first job, in 1883, was swabbing spittoons in a backwoods railroad depot. In 1937 his wife, Harriette Flora Gray, was elected "Typical American Mother." Last September a son, Dr. Howard K. Gray, surgeon at the Mayo Clinic, operated on James Roosevelt for a stomach ulcer (TIME...
Died. Dr. Alexander Lambert, 77, second son of a famed medical family; of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 50 years as diagnostician, specialist on internal medicine and drug addiction, Dr. Lambert treated Theodore Roosevelt, Major General Leonard Wood, Samuel Gompers, many another notable. Of his eight pallbearers (all kin), four were doctors...