Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tzivilizatzia," little Stoyan pestered his father for passage money, got it by going on strike. He was then 13 years old. His guardian for the trip was a returning naturalized U. S. citizen. In St. Louis, Stoyan lived with an uncle, in an apartment where six countrymen, haggard with overwork and economizing, slept in shifts. They worked in the railroad shop, made $1.50 a day, saved most of it. In a shoe factory Stoyan got $7 a week; room was 50? a month, board $1 a week. In his spare time he hung out in a Greek coffee shop, whose...
...Idaho's U. S. Senator William Edgar Borah, 73, in Washington, from overwork; famed Physicist Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, 70, at Rochester, Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, † from a gall-bladder ailment; Commander Joel Thompson Boone, U.S.N. Medical Corps, at San Diego's Naval Hospital, from an abdominal operation; Ice Skater Jack Dunn in Hollywood, from a streptococcic throat infection ; New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore in his Little White House at Sea Girt, N. J., from intestinal influenza...
Victorious in defending eight major New Deal laws before the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Reed suffered three defeats, in cases involving NRA, AAA and the Bankhead Act (where a combination of overwork and hostility from the bench brought him to a courtroom collapse). After the AAA case his dark, lively wife, Winifred, long active in politics as registrar general of the D. A. R., performed the most audacious political feat of Washington's 1936 social season by inviting all the Supreme Court Justices to dinner...
...Noble Kizer, Purdue University athletic director and head football coach, of nephritis, in La Fayette, Ind.; New York Timesman Walter Duranty, after an abdominal operation, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Edgar Watson ("Ed") Howe, 84, famed onetime publisher of the Atchison (Kans.) Globe, of overwork, in Atchison; Bill Owens, captain of the New York Giants professional football team, after an auto collision, in Kingsley, Kans...
When Composer George Gershwin crumpled in Hollywood last fortnight, doctors called it overwork. Last week, when he collapsed again they found a cystic tumor growing fast in his brain. Doctors at Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital sent a hurry call to Dr. Walter Edward Dandy, great brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins. Gershwin sank so fast they had to operate before Dandy could get there. Next morning at 10:35 a. m., while his brother Ira watched over him, George Gershwin died. Serious musicians joined pluggers and crooners to mourn the 38-year-old composer who had made...