Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington, Ill...
...Franklin Roosevelt did not let a critical Congressional situation keep him from going fishing off Florida. Last week he had another fishing appointment aboard Vincent Astor's Nourmahal but failed to depart as scheduled. His old friend, intimate adviser and No. 1 secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, lay critically ill in his bedroom on the northwest corner of the White House's second floor. The 64-year-old ex-newshawk was being kept alive by oxygen and drugs in spite of heart disease, pleurisy and asthma. "Critical," "grave," "very critical," "steadily failing strength" told the story of his decline...
...dark week at the White House. Mrs. Howe, the secretary's son Hartley from Boston, his daughter Mary (Mrs. Robert H. Baker) from Urbana, Ill. came & went in the sickroom. The Roosevelts canceled all social engagements...
Died. Richard Berry Harrison, 70, "de Lawd" of The Green Pastures (TIME, March 4); of acute coronary occlusion, after falling ill three weeks ago just before his 1,658th performance in the play; in Manhattan...
Author Strachey, branded a "foreign rat" by the Hearst Press, was delivering the 64th lecture of his current U. S. tour when Federal agents and local constabulary appeared at the North Shore Congregation Israel Synagog in Glencoe, Ill. Respectfully they waited until he finished, then served a deportation warrant. It charged that Author Strachey entered the U. S. "by means of false and misleading statements," had since declared himself a Communist. Chirped delighted Author Strachey, who planned to leave for England in two weeks anyway: "A dramatic nourish to the end of my lecture tour...