Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Count Yasuya Uchida, 70, onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., Austria, Russia, four times Japan's Foreign Minister; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. He was recalled from retirement, put in charge of the Japanese Foreign Office for the last time in 1932, superintended Japan's withdrawal from the League, its seizure of Manchuria...
Died. Albert Harrison Brundage, 74, noted toxicologist; of lobar pneumonia; in Central Islip, L.I. Wealthy from his writings, he gave so liberally to charity and scientific research that two months ago, bankrupt and broken in health, he was evicted from his Woodhaven, L.I. home...
Died. John Scott Haldane, 76, famed physiologist and physicist, brother of the late Richard Burdon Viscount Haldane (onetime Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain), father of London University's celebrated Author-Biochemist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane; of pneumonia; in Oxford. A confirmed hater of materialism, he called it "nothing better than a superstition...
...chill, writes Dr. Taussig, may cause spontaneous abortion. Spontaneous abortions may also result from defective ova, weakness of the placenta, nervous wombs, malformed pelvis, dietary deficiencies, endocrine disturbances. Half the women who suffer from typhoid fever, cholera, scarlet fever, smallpox, erysipelas, sleeping sickness and malaria during pregnancy involuntarily abort. Pneumonia is especially feticidal...
Shot with a rifle by his mother during a Thanksgiving drinking bout last autumn (TIME, Dec. 9), Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 16, contracted pneumonia in his wounded lung, underwent two operations, hovered for a month on Death's verge, then slowly began to recover in a Santa Barbara hospital. Meanwhile his mother, Mrs. Dorothea Livermore Long-cope, was charged with assault with intent to murder, released pending, appearance in court next week. His father, famed stock-trader, flew to Santa Barbara with his third wife, secured legal custody of his son. Last week Son Jesse walked...