Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lucien Coy Esty, 30, of New Haven, Conn., co-author (with Justin Spafford) of the first Ask Me Another book; Amherst alumnus, graduate student in English at Yale University; of pneumonia ; in New Haven...
Died. Jacob ("Jake") Volk, 56, of Brooklyn, N. Y., potent razer, Russian-born butcher's son; of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. Razer Volk began with a horse and wagon; ended with a swift demolishing squad. He razed more than 2,500 buildings, including Delmonico's famed restaurant and the homes of Vanderbilts. He cleared the ground for the Woolworth Building, Equitable Building, N. Y. Cotton Exchange, Bankers Trust Co. When he razed the 13-story Chemical National Bank in downtown Manhattan he displayed a sign: "JACOB VOLK-THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN WALL STREET." His fondest dream...
...piece of cheese. For three and a half hours these natural reactions continued. By that time the venous blood became too heavy for the pump to oxygenate thoroughly. The dog's head began to yawn for the air which its lungs would have used so vitally. Gaping, like a pneumonia victim, the head died completely...
Last week it was said that Exile Trotsky had contracted pneumonia, summoned a specialist from Berlin. In describing how Stalin was able to seize supreme power, Trotsky declares that, during Lenin's last and protracted illnesses, the present dictator organized a veritable camarilla of self-seekers who conspired secretly against Trotsky (Lenin's logical successor) and took advantage of the fact that Trotsky himself was often ill to foment against him an opposition so strong that when Lenin died Oppositionist Stalin was able gradually to oust Trotskyists from their posts and finally to seize the government...
London, March 7--Professor Allyn Abbott Young, famous authority on economics and former head of the Department of Economics at Harvard, died here today of pneumonia...