Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made colossus of Scandinavian finance. Matchman Kreuger was putting a bullet into his heart for business reasons (see p. 45) and for human reasons. His nerves were drawn so taut (he had suffered a nervous breakdown recently in New York) that to release the strain was welcome, sweet. His physician had warned him the day before that his heart would not stand much more. "M. Kreuger is sleeping," said the concierge of the apartment about 1:30 p.m. when Vice President Krister Littorin of Swedish Match, who had expected to lunch with his chief at the Hotel du Rhin. anxiously...
...Latin America which have vexed him. His book turned from a travelog into a philippic. Lest readers doubt his competence to criticize he took care to detail that he has spent but 30 months of the past 31 years outside of South America. For 25 years he was physician & surgeon to mines, railways, sugar and rubber estates in various countries. During vacations he explored. For the past rive years exploring has been his profession. Not strangely, explorers and exploring vex him most. He considers "the aims of most expeditions, particularly those to South America, falsely pretentious and insincere...
Amid a fist fight in the Chamber of Deputies, confidence in this Cabinet was voted 309 to 262, whereat a spectator in the gallery dropped dead "of excitement" (said the Chamber physician). Later the new Cabinet will face the Senate, which overthrew the previous (Laval) Cabinet. Lying extremely low as Minister of Labor, Pierre Laval was obliged, as his first duty, to report that Frenchmen "totally unemployed" increased 19,000 last week to a grand total...
...Stimson, was in Washington. The acting Chief U. S. Delegate, Hugh Simons Gibson, was not only in bed with a bad cold three days of last week in Geneva but apparently communicated this affliction to Captain Kent Churchill Melhorn, U. S. N., the U. S. Delegation's staff physician. Several other U. S. delegates were in bed with colds and Swiss doctors were hastily summoned...
...tradition Assassin Booth, as he leaped from Lincoln's box to the stage, cried "Sic Semper Tyrannis." One E. V. McGinnis of St. Louis whose great grandfather was Booth's physician and whose grandfather was sitting in the Ford's Theatre audience on the evening of April 14, 1865, claims that what Booth really said was: "I'm sick?send for McGinnis...