Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Cordell Hull and a large diplomatic party will depart from here tomorrow at 11 a.m., on an historic mission designed to preserve the American continent as an "island of peace" amid a politically storm-tossed world. They are going to the eighth conference of American states at Lima...
Norma Terris, playing the tavern girl, owns the show by virtue of her singing and her extremely attractive manner in the part. This wench of low estate, nee Eliza Bowen of Providence, Rhode Island, believes a woman can achieve anything she wishes if only she marry the right man. Successively she become an actress, the wife of a prominent American merchant, Stephan Jumel, and finally Mrs. Aaron Burr; throughout all this she keeps a rabid fan of Napoleon on her mind and in her heart...
William Henry ("Billy") Vanderbilt, 37, grandson of the railroading commodore, in Rhode Island politics for ten years...
Died. Mary ("Typhoid Mary") Mallon. circa 70, first typhoid carrier ever identified in the U. S.; of a paralytic stroke; on North Brother Island in the East River. N. Y. In 1902 German Bacteriologist Robert Koch proved that typhoid could be spread by an apparently healthy person who was a walking repository of germs. In 1907 it was discovered that one Mary Mallon had been employed as cook in a number of homes where typhoid had broken out. She was examined against her will, found to be harboring typhoid bacilli, imprisoned on North Brother Island when she refused to have...
Rendigs T. Fels of Dunster House and Cincinnati, Ohio; Laurence S. Levy of Leverett House and Woodmere, Long Island; Richard W. B. Lewis of Kirkland and Philadelphia; Wells Lewis of Lowell House and New York; Richard M. Noyes of Kirkland House and Urbana, Illionis; Harry Pollard of Dorchester...