Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Matador Sidney Franklin (Frumkin), Actresses Ethel Barrymore and Louise Closser Hale, of pneumonia in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Hollywood respectively; Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrdt of influenza, in Boston; Dr. George Edgar Vincent, 68, onetime President of Rockefeller Foundation and University of Minnesota, after an appendectomy, in Greenwich, Conn.; Norman B. Woolworth, cousin of the late tycoon Winfield (5 & 10¢) Woolworth. aboard his chartered yacht Cyprus, near Charleston...
Warning signals went up last week in the U. S. Public Health Service Washington headquarters: "Beware influenza!" The number of cases reported had more than doubled in a week, had jumped from 3,086 to 6,306. The uncrowded South and West suffered most. Alabama's cases totalled 1,940 as against 204 the previous week. Louisiana had 600 (23 before); Arizona 479 (175 before); California 1,721 (903 before); Oregon 112 (81 before...
...doing well to hold the Army to three touchdowns . . . Harris, Vairo, Murphy, Boland and Melinkovich have been in the infirmary with influenza. . . . I have never told a bear story before but I mean this one. It looks like a bad day for us. ... We've been scouted plenty. They tell me the Army players even know how to pronounce our names. ... I don't know exactly how I'll start. . . . Last week the second team looked better than the regulars. ... I may mix the starting lineup, possibly the first string line and the second string backfield."-Coach...
...opinion was the long pass from Banas to Devore for the second touchdown. Murphy called that play on fourth down. . . . We figured that we could stop Vidal and we did. ... On their side, Summerfelt [captain and guard] was outstanding. . . . You know, this clear cold weather is great for curing influenza.''-Coach Anderson, after Notre Dame had sensationally beaten Army 21-to-0, in New York...
Before starting for Washington to confer with President Hoover on War Debts, President-elect Roosevelt spent a quietly busy week which, for him, began in his big, high-backed mahogany bed in the Albany Executive Mansion. Recovering from a mild attack of influenza, he wore a blue silk dressing gown over a white sweater and pajamas when a dozen newsmen trooped into his high-ceiled bedroom for an interview. His bed was littered with letters and telegrams. On a table stood a glass of milk...