Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uncomfortable with a cold in his nose last week was President Roosevelt. AAAdministrator Chester Charles Davis, FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins, House Majority Leader William Brockman Bankhead also had colds. Influenza and pneumonia had incapacitated so many Government officials and employes that Washington doctors broadcast warnings of a potential epidemic...
...Texas, Governor James V. Allred was laid up by influenza...
...Jersey an eminent victim of influenza was Professor Albert Einstein. Some of the lawyers and witnesses in the Hauptmann murder trial at Remington had the sniffles, but not severely enough to impede proceedings more than a day. Elsewhere in New Jersey, in the southern part, colds and influenza forced the closing of many a school. Some Pennsylvania and Delaware schools, across the Delaware River from affected New Jersey communities, also had to close because so many children and teachers were...
...favor that he is personally frail-looking, mild-mannered, small, ascetic, "a mystic." Araki himself reconciles these contradictions in his character with his favorite maxim, "Be greedy only in mind." To keep fit he put in 20 minutes a day bastinadoing a dummy with a bamboo sword, until influenza laid him low last winter and politicians forced his resignation as War Minister. When he was ill, Japanese teachers collected sen from their schoolchildren to buy Araki medicine. Last week he was fit again, beating his dummy. The Diet was about to convene again, and it was time to make...
During the eighteen years that Dr. Charles Armstrong, 48, has been in the U. S. Public Health Service he has repeatedly risked his life investigating botulism, influenza, syphilis, spasms following vaccination, milk-borne epidemics...