Word: influenza
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...posterity on the 1930 Tariff Act. In last week's House contest he personified the orthodox high tariff Republican ideal. Against him were arrayed insurgent Republicans and low-tariff Democrats, leaderless through the absence of Texas' Congressman John Nance Garner, minority chief, who was ill with influenza...
...securities of those eight great U. S. manufacturing and retail drug concerns who have listed their stocks with the New York Stock and Curb exchange.* This despite the fact that their business this spring has not been so good as usual due: 1) to the absence of an influenza epidemic last winter; 2) to the smaller purchasing power of drugstore customers affected by current unemployment and business depression. This second cause is a shock to both manufacturing druggists and retailers. They had held the idea that the need for drugstore medicines was a constantly rising factor in society, independent...
When poor C.&C. was swept away by untimely influenza, the Great Queen did not waver in her wish to improve on coincidence and make a queen of May. "Eddy" was dead, but "Georgie" was left. May should marry Georgie, decreed Victoria. But Alexandra was violently opposed. What?this girl who was supposed to be grief-stricken for Alexandra's eldest and favorite son?should she be allowed to switch her affections to No. 2? Was it decent? Was it right? In effect, should May be allowed to get away with...
...Puget Island in the Columbia River 70 mi. from Portland, a child was at the crisis of pneumonia. Three other children and two women had influenza. Boats could not reach them through the crazy river ice. Dr. Ernest Lloyd Boylen, 32, of Portland, flew to them at night in a plane, made a precarious landing in the flares of torches and bonfires the island fishermen...
...symptoms of psittacosis resemble those of influenza, pneumonia and typhoid. In parrots the typhoid aspects predominate, in man the pneumonia. Man contracts the disease from infected birds, never so far as is known from infected...