Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Blanche E. MacLeish Billings, 74, wife of Capitalist Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings whose death preceded hers by ten days (TIME, May 17); of broncho pneumonia; at "Billings Park," near Santa Barbara, Calif...
Died. John Burke, 78, Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, North Dakota's first Democratic Governor (1907-13), onetime (1913-21) Treasurer of the U. S.; of pneumonia, following a lung operation; in Rochester, Minn. At the 1912 Democratic National Convention he was runner-up to the late Thomas R. Marshall for the Vice Presidential nomination. In 1922 he entered partnership with Louis M. Kardos Jr. in a Wall Street brokerage firm which soon failed, was exposed as a "bucket shop." Admitting that he had received $500 a week for the use of his name as "window...
...Cole's original researches in Medicine were on gonorrhea, a disease which is now being dramatically conquered by means of dyes and heat (TIME, May 17). He soon turned to typhoid, then to pneumonia. He has concentrated on pneumonia ever since he organized the Rockefeller Institute's Hospital in 1910, has discovered or helped discover many of the 32 types of pneumococci and serums to combat some of them. He remains a member emeritus of the Rockefeller Institute...
Died. Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings. 75, Chicago & Manhattan capitalist and famed trotting-horse breeder (Uhlan, Lou Dillon, The Harvester, Major Delmar); of pneumonia; at "Billings Park," near Santa Barbara, Calif. At 18 he entered Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., succeeded his father as president in 1887, became board chairman of Union Carbide & Carbon Co. in 1929; Turfman Billings was celebrated for his "horseback" parties at Manhattan's Sherry's. Guests rode their horses into the elevators, ascended to the dining room while mounted, were served by liveried waiters while their horses munched oats...
Died. Harry Stewart New, 78, onetime (1923-29) U. S. Postmaster General, Republican National Chairman (1907-08) and Senator from Indiana (1917-23); of pneumonia; in Baltimore. He established the U. S. air mail service, in 1922 made the first political campaign speech by radio...