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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...
...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...
...chancery of St. Mary's Cathedral at Trenton, N. J., the diocese to which Father Leonard had been attached. A bombardment of press questions followed. The chancery, rigorously schooled in the use of language, was soon ready with its vindication: ''Father Leonard had an attack of influenza in the epidemic of 1918 and 1919. . . . He was mentally sluggish...
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...
Died. Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, 82. longtime (1914-29) Papal Secretary of State, first Cardinal since the 11th Century to hold that office under two Popes; of pneumonia following influenza; in Rome. In 1929 anti-Fascist Cardinal Gasparri and No. 1 Fascist Benito Mussolini signed with gold pens the famed Lateran treaties restoring the diplomatic and temporal status of the Papacy after a 59-year break...