Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desk telephone to find Governor Roosevelt talking from his Albany study. Their opening exchanges were easy, informal. Despite the campaign they were, after all, old friends from War days in Washington. The President inquired after the Governor's health, was glad to know he had recovered from influenza (see p. 12). The Governor suggested a day and hour on which to accept the President's invitation to the White House, adding that he would like to bring to the meeting one personal adviser. That was all right with the President who said he would have Secretary...
Died. Mary Robbins Hillard, 70. founder and headmistress of socialite Westover School for girls at Middlebury (Conn.); of influenza; at Middlebury...
...financial condition at no time would justify a characterization of hose at $6.50 a pair, a white Panama hat at $40, cloth coat at $420, dresses at $225 and $250, and perfumery at $25 or $15, as necessaries for my wife." Ill lay: Mrs- John Work Garrett, of bronchial influenza, in Baltimore; Charles Spencer Chaplin, of food poisoning, in Hollywood; Dr, Rolla Eugene Dyer, typhus fever expert of the U. S. Public Health Service, of typhus fever, in Washington ; Edward Beale McLean in Paris...
...physician died of infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, anthrax, parrot fever, or undulant fever. Of 2,952 U. S. doctors who died during the year (average age: 63.8-) heart disease killed 1,065, cerebralhemorrhage 365, pneumonia 312, hardening of the arteries 252, kidney ailments 237, cancer 236, blood poisoning 45, influenza 36. Sixty-four committed suicide (most by shooting, only five by poisoning); 139 were killed accidentally (two took overdoses of medicine; one caught his head in a drawer of a wardrobe trunk; one overbaked himself in an electric cabinet...
...Marxes toured U. S. training camps with their first show, Mr. Green's Reception. When influenza caused the barracks to be quarantined, Gummo and Harpo enlisted. Groucho and Chico joined organizations for entertaining soldiers. Harpo reached France with the 7th Regiment. He worked as a reporter for the Stars & Stripes, like Editor Harold Ross of the New Yorker, Colyumist Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and Alexander Woollcott. With them he helped form the famed Thanatopsis Club, for poker...