Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Reed Smoot of Utah was at pains, last week, to deny a rumor that he was about to resign his seat in the Senate to become head of the Mormon Church. Heber J. Grant, present head of the Church, is ill; but even if he should die, Rudger Clawson is senior to Mr. Smoot among the Mormon elders...
...revivals." But two churches, staunchly Fundamental, withdrew from the revival's scope. Said the pastor of one: "We were informed that the Presbyterian ministers of the city would interchange pulpits for two weeks. My session gave that prayerful attention. We concluded unanimously that the time was 'ill-advised.' " Said the pastor of the other: "No, sir! I am not inviting any Modernists up here to give us any of their dry dust...
...felt companies. After the longest superior court trial on record (184 days), he got a verdict of $10,534,109.00-the largest judgment ever awarded by a court to an individual (TIME, Dec. 29). When he received news that he had won back this fortune, Mr. Willett was ill of typhoid fever. Recovered, he last week brought suit for $15,000,000 against the Chase National Bank, the Chase Securities Corporation, Manhattan, and against Eugene V. R. Thayer, President of the Bank. The complaint -50 typewritten pages-charges violation of trust, states that the Chase corporations took part...
After this clear statement, the bizarre and ill understood relations of Harvard and Radcliffe will no more battle the imagination. The "adjoining school for girls" simply employs and enjoys some of "this school's" professors. A simple and understandable commercial relation, that...
...mule and no prancing Arab steed could be found strong enough to support his grotesque corpulence and a special litter had to be constructed to bear his great weight. A strange cavalcade left Tazreut. First, marched 20 fierce Riffian guards, armed hip and thigh. Second, came a huge, ill-fashioned sedan chair, supported at each corner by a pole and carried by 16 husky men. Inside the sedan box was Raisuli, reclining on soft carpets and magnificent cushions. Over his paunchy, shapeless face he wore a turban; under if, his little black eyes rolled and blazed alternately in pain...