Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Marron Fickert, 64, onetime District Attorney of San Francisco, prosecutor of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings for the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombings; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. After his successful prosecution of Mooney and Billings, Attorney Fickert twice ran unsuccessfully for re-election as District Attorney, once ran unsuccessfully for Governor of California. He always swore that Mooney and Billings got a fair trial, though for the rest of his life he was the object of threats and imprecations. When Convict Mooney heard of Attorney Fickert's death he said bitterly: "He'll be chiefly known...
Died. Archbishop Simeon, 98, Orthodox Archbishop of Varna and Preslav, Bulgaria ; of pneumonia; in Sofia. He took part in Bulgaria's struggle for freedom from Turkey, in the fight for an independent Bulgarian church, was one of the drafters of the Bulgarian constitution...
...advantage annually of the opportunity to have a physical examination, at no extra cost beyond their regular health fee. The Hygiene Department hopes that they will do the same this year. At the same time it goes without saying that the student should not wait until the approach of pneumonia in the winter or the insurance man in the spring...
...appear to have been injured, his bones would knit, his playing probably would not be impaired. In great artistic anxiety, he canceled a tour of Java and Palestine, planned to go to Vienna for treatment. Week later Violinist Hubermann was in Bandoeng, Java, laid low by an attack of pneumonia that endangered his life...
...towheaded, 10-year-old farm boy named Jody Tiflin. Given a red pony colt by his father, coached in its training by the hired hand, Jody is in perpetual seventh heaven except when he is in school. A few days before the pony is ready to ride, it catches pneumonia, sneaks away to die in the woods, where Jody is found beside the corpse, hammering insanely on the long-since smashed head of a buzzard that was too slow to escape his wild grief...