Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year he is pushing the shot out two feet further this year than ever before. He, too, broke Andover, Exeter, and Harvard Freshman records this winter. Witness his superior performance of 53 ft., 6 in. in the Exeter meet of January 13. Nat Heard, out of both meets with pneumonia, promises to be a close runner-up to Downing...
Died. Lionel Charles ("Dick") Probert, 53, vice president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, whose "Chessie" cat advertising campaign he fostered; of pneumonia ; in Los Angeles. Once a locomotive fireman, he turned newspaperman, became Associated Press Bureau chief in Mexico (1913) and Washington (1918-27). He saw President McKinley assassinated, went to France with President Wilson. The late Brothers Van Sweringen got him back in the railroad business as vice president of the Erie...
...Evansville, brought 225 of its boats on the scene for rescue work, sent for nearly 200 more from points as far distant as Boston. It had 15 airplanes in action. The U. S. Public Health Service was busy shipping anti-typhoid and smallpox vaccine, diphtheria antitoxin, influenza and pneumonia serum; was mobilizing a corps of sanitary engineers to face new problems as the flood recedes. Revenue agents were ordered to give up "still" chasing and use their cars to transport refugees. Even the Narcotics Bureau was busy shipping supplies of codeine and other needed drugs to the flood area...
Died. James Joseph Couzens, 88, one time soap manufacturer, father of Michigan's late Republican Senator James Couzens; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
Died. Admiral Albert Cleaves. 79, U. S. N. retired, able Wartime Commander of the Cruiser & Transport Force whose convoys transported 2,511,047 soldiers across the Atlantic without a single loss; of pneumonia; in Philadelphia. He commanded the Mayflower, later the Presidential yacht on its 1903 geodetic survey cruise which charted the Atlantic's deepest hole (27,984 ft.) off Puerto Rico, supervised construction of the first U. S. torpedo factory at Newport, initiated ship refuelling...