Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michael Joseph Curley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, recovering from pneumonia in a Baltimore hospital, was disturbed and annoyed by the description of a most lamentable event. A henchman had opened the Archbishop's safe to ascertain the presence of the gold chalice, inset with jewels, which the Catholics of Baltimore had given to the late Cardinal Gibbons on the 50th anniversary of his ordination (1918), also, the presence of the diamond-studded handle to another chalice, the gold cross of Archbishop Curley's chain, his watch, and $90 in currency. These things were not, as they should...
Died. John S. Kelly, 69, Democratic leader for many years of Baltimore; in Baltimore; of pneumonia...
Died. Watson Franklin Blair, 74, retired Chicago capitalist, onetime director of the Corn Exchange National Bank, Deputy Governor since 1921 of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, director of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co.; of pneumonia; in Greenwich, Conn...
Died. William Cordes, 55, onetime newsboy, president of the Prophylactic Brush Co. Inc.; of pneumonia; in Northampton, Mass...
Died. Vicente Blasco Ibanez, most famed living Spanish author [Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Mare Nostrum; Blood and Sand; Alfonso XIII Unmasked (banned in his own country); others] ; of bronchial pneumonia; at his villa in Menton, France, where he lived, a voluntary exile. Of Spain under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, he wrote: ". . . it de-teriorates." His monarch he called "slave." In retaliation, a Spanish diplomat, the Marques de Merry del Val, explained: ". . . his loose, inaccurate style has pre-vented him . . from admission...