Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diseases which will menace the civilian and military populations during the next war are, according to Medical Director Charles M. Griffith of the Veterans' Administration, influenza, pneumonia, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, measles, mental deficiency and psychoneuroses...
...when I was in high school." Bachelor Guy Bassilli from Cairo, Egypt, did not talk for publication. Cleveland's Guy Baker, less shy, demanded on alighting from his transcontinental plane: "Where's Mae? Why isn't she here to meet me?" Cinemactress West was ill with influenza, recovered sufficiently to receive her guests in her boudoir...
...Also working under difficulties last week was another United Feature columnist, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. While her attack of influenza was putting her on the front page, My Day continued to appear as usual in the feature section. On the clay General Johnson's truncated column went to United's clients, Columnist Roosevelt reported: "Everyone should be a little ill now and then in order to be reminded how very kind and thoughtful the rest of the world is to those of us who fall by the wayside. . . . I have just been asked what flavor I would like...
...Treasury William Hartman Woodin out of the Cabinet, later killed him. Last week Death struck its first square blow at the Roosevelt Cabinet when Secretary of War George Henry Dern died after a long illness in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. He had suffered a severe attack of influenza in Charleston, S. C. last spring. In July, weakened by kidney trouble, the 64-year-old Secretary took to his bed never to rise again...
Last week an answer reached the U. S. from Britain. Dr. C. H. Stuart-Harris of London's National Institute for Medical Research was scrutinizing some ferrets sick with influenza. One of the little animals sneezed right in the doctor's face. Forty-five hours later he was in bed with influenza. Last week Dr. Stuart-Harris was up & about again, able to proceed on the assumption that ferret influenza is the same as the malady...