Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Reid, 67, the artist who painted the murals in the Library of Congress, Massachusetts State House in Boston, San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts; at a sanitarium in Clifton Springs, N. Y., whither he had gone after his right arm became paralyzed (1927); of a broken hip and pneumonia. Having taught himself to paint with his left hand, last spring he exhibited two pictures at the National Academy of Design (Manhattan...
Died. William Walton Griest, 70. Pennsylvania Representative since 1909; at Mount Clemens, Mich.; of arthritis and pneumonia. Chairman of the House Committee on Post Offices & Post Roads, he advocated lower second-class mail rates 1? postcard rate, increased pay for postal employes...
Died. Harry Hart, 79, president of Hart, Schaffner & Marx (clothing); in Chicago; of pneumonia. In 1872, with his brother Max, he began the firm of Harry Hart & Bro. in Chicago. With a brother-in-law and Marcus Marx, Hart, Abt & Marx was opened seven years later. When Levi Abt withdrew from the concern, a new partner was taken in and the present house established as Hart, Schaffner & Marx. The first year (1887) they did a $550,000 business; last year, a $35,000,000 business. Founder Hart survived his partners. Long interested in educational* and social work...
Died. Senator Francis Emory Warren of Wyoming, 85; of bronchial pneumonia; at Washington...
Thus, boundlessly in love at the age of 61, wrote a rich woman in her diary two years ago. Death came to her in shame and poverty last week. She died of pneumonia without receiving a word or line of sympathy from her first cousin George V, King and Emperor. Her brother, Wilhelm II, telephoned to ask if she would like to see him at the last. "Nein, nein," whispered Victoria of Hohenzollern, "I don't want to see anybody but my nurses...