Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Speaker Garner was ordered to bed with influenza...
Died, Edward M. Beers, 54, Congressman from the 18th Pennsylvania District: of complications following influenza; in Washington...
Died. John Barnes Miller, 62, founder and board chairman of Southern California Edison Co. Ltd.; of blood-poisoning following influenza; in Los Angeles. A onetime planter, law student, steamboat operator, he became an employe of a small Los Angeles lighting company at 27, within five years merged 40 local utilities to form Southern California Edison. Under his direction it grew to have assets of $375,000,000 in 1930, 110,000 stockholders...
...Rapidan River for President Hoover & friends to catch. ¶ President Hoover instructed Secretary of State Stimson to sail this week for Geneva where he will spend a fortnight at the League of Nations Disarmament Conference. Statesman Stimson hoped the sea trip would help him recover from an attack of influenza. Twice last week President Hoover conferred with Norman Hezekiah Davis, a U. S. delegate at the Geneva parley...
...filibuster of Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas on another issue. Runner-up for the 1930 title of "Champion Horseshoe Pitcher of Congress," he defeated his Democratic opponent in the last Congressional election by nine votes. Died. Frederick Benjamin Haviland, 63, music publisher; of pneumonia developed from influenza; in Manhattan. Learning the business from the late Oliver Ditson, he founded a firm with the late Songwriter Paul Dresser ("On the Banks of the Wabash," which they published), brother of Novelist Theodore Herman Dreiser. During his life Publisher Haviland sold over ten million copies of songs...