Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Further to please Queen Mary, Baron Dawson of Penn, the physician who pulled George V through pneumonia (TIME, April 8, 1929) and attended him in his last hours, was created by Edward VIII last week a Viscount, the highest rank figuring this year in the King's birthday honors. Baronies went to Chairman J. B. W. Pease of Lloyd's Bank, to the Indian United Provinces' retired Governor...
...Torrington, Conn. 13-year-old Minnie Pisanti ran into the street, was killed by an automobile driven by Alma Gluck Zimbalist, soprano wife of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist. Under his oxygen tent at Riverside, Calif. Comedian W. C. Fields (Poppy), fighting pneumonia, was shown a newspaper picture of himself with the caption "Improved." Cracked he: "If I die tonight, they can say I died 'improved...
...Hollywood comedian. That Poppy might conclude the third portion was a possibility which appeared imminent last week. Desperately ill most of last year, Fields went to Soboba Hot Springs for a rest after his first picture in almost two years. There last week he was stricken with pneumonia, rushed to a hospital, placed under an oxygen tent...
Died. Arthur Amos Noyes, 69, chemist of California Institute of Technology, developer of the ionic theory, onetime (1927) President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; of pneumonia; in Pasadena, Calif...
Died. Senator Roberto Forges-Davanzati, 56, editor of Rome's potent La Tribuna, onetime (1924) Secretary General of the Fascist Party; of pneumonia; in Rome...