Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's merry dinner came to an equally abrupt end with a real news flash from Washington. He knew that Secretary of the Navy Swanson had been critically ill with pleurisy all week. But the news was that the President's cousin, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, had suddenly succumbed to a heart attack during an attack of intestinal influenza. Cutting his Harvard evening short, the President and his three sons drove to the Presidential special, did some hurried telegraphing. In an hour he had word that his cousin's funeral would be held...
...choice of concentration, but has tackled the problem in an orthodox, and, unfortunately, unimaginative way in his proposal for a series of departmental clinics. This austere system of consultation and diagnosis by individual departmental representatives is a generous gesture on the part of the Dean, but leaves the fundamental ill untouched. A casual pilgrimage from office to office would leave the freshman in even a worse state of indecision than when he started. He has always had opportunities enough for information, which, after all, is all that these clinics could hope to give him; what he needs is leadership...
...venture into these disaffected parts of the realm. A law school professor who has just returned from the Potomac where he had been doing some work for the Labor Advisory Board swears to the truth of the following incident. He was present himself, he says. Last month during the ill-fated munitions investigation, when J. P. Morgan had come down from New York to air his views on finances and housemaids, the law school professor saw him late one afternoon in the lobby of the Shoreham. J. P. was standing alone in front of one of the big windows, looking...
...friend Elijah Gammon struggling with throat trouble and a manufacturing concession for Marsh harvesters. Elijah Gammon told William Deering that his machine was better than any built by powerful old Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the reaper. William invested $40,000 in the concession, moved to Evanston, Ill., soon bought out his partner. In 1880 he soared to the top of the brawling harvester business with a twine binder which he picked up from one John F. Appleby. Twine binders did not cut into the wheat or, like wire binders, kill cattle that happened to eat a strand. Struggling little...