Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Sam L. Warner, 40, son of a Russian immigrant shoemaker, vice president of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. (cinema producers), in Los Angeles; of pneumonia, following a sinus infection. At 16, he and brother Albert Warner, displayed "The Great Train Robbery", famed one-reeler, in lofts and stores of Pennsylvania and Ohio towns. Later they rented a store in Newcastle, Pa., installed 99 chairs, from an undertaker's parlor, conducted one of the first cinema theatres. If there was a funeral, the cinema patrons stood. Last May the Vitaphone Corporation became a subsidiary to Warner Brothers...
...Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Governor of Hungary, and his able Premier, Count Stephan Bethlen, to oppose his ill-advised return and to hand him and Empress Zita over to the British, who exiled him to Funchal on the Island of Madeira, where he died on April 1, 1922, of pneumonia...
Died. George W. Hayes, one-time (1913-17) Governor of Arkansas; in Little Rock, of pneumonia...
Died. Laurence Dunn, 57, accountant, brother of the wife of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York; in Manhattan, of pneumonia...
...year has ceased his travels and so to speak, settled down to a peaceful old age and taken up house keeping where he will no longer be constrained to brush away the dust from the diamond--an occupation which at times brought him close to the verge of mental pneumonia. In fact, the Vagabond has become quite domestic, and as a result, his son will this year wander about upon the father's business...