Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California. Andrew William Mellon, his Secretary of the Treasury, found it hard to believe the news as the S. S. Majestic carried him back to his Ambassadorial post at London. Dwight Filley Davis, his Secretary of War, was at Tallahassee. John Garibaldi Sargent, his Attorney General, was recovering from influenza at his Ludlow, Vt. home. Frank Stearns, his closest personal friend, the man who picked him for President long before the Boston police strike, was so overcome with grief in Boston that he could say nothing for hours...
...Manhattan, influenza forced these actresses and singers to cancel scheduled performances: Eva Le Gallienne, Judith Anderson, Alice Brady, Lily Pons, Mary Garden, Also ill last week lay: President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in Prague and Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick in Manhattan, both with influenza ; Governor Charles Wayland Bryan, of coronary artery disease, in Lincoln, Neb.; Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel, after an abdominal operation, in Manhattan...
Lobbyist Bullitt insisted that there was a "decided difference" between the retired pay of regular Army & Navy officers and the pensions to veterans who served only briefly during the War. In Boston where he was recovering from influenza Admiral Byrd rose up to reply: "I'm proud of being a naval officer. ... I will not be muzzled, intimidated nor stopped. . . . The principle of the right of liberty itself is involved. . . . Whether or not General Harbord, General Pershing and I are on the retired list makes no difference. . . . The movement will sweep forward...
Comparable to the human scourges of influenza and infantile paralysis is canine distemper. An ancient disease, it has been endemic, occasionally epidemic, wherever dogs are found. It is both contagious and infectious. Young dogs are more susceptible to it than old, purebreds more than mongrels. Distemper kills about half its victims. Many of those recovering are permanently afflicted with twitching, partial paralysis, palsy, or a condition resembling sleeping sickness...
...influenza which swiftly spread over the South and West (TIME, Dec. 12) by last week had filtered North and East. Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming estimated a quarter-million cases in the country, up from 65,000 three weeks ago. But the disease this year is mild, kills few victims...