Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Oliver Peter Heggie, 57, Australian-born character actor of stage (Androcks & the Lion, The Truth About Blayds) and screen (The Letter, The Swan, The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu); of pneumonia; in Hollywood, a few days after completing the role of Dr. MacIntyre in the cinema, The Prisoner of Shark Island...
Died. Henry Justin Smith, 60, on the Chicago Daily News since 1899 (except for 1924-26, when he assisted University of Chicago's president), managing editor since 1926; of pneumonia; in Evanston, III. Under his tutelage developed many well-known newshawks, including Ben Hecht, Howard Vincent O'Brien, Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Poet Carl Sandburg...
...Club has not been suspended as is intimated in some Boston newspapers this morning nor has there been any stipulation made about new elections. The choice of new officers usually takes place in January although a special election will have to be held on account of the death from pneumonia of Frederic M. Miller '37, the newly-chosen president...
...Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. Last week Rinehart & Dennis were putting in last licks on their tunnel. But many a man who began the digging in 1929 was not alive to see the finish in 1936. Some had died of silicosis, incurable lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust. Pneumonia and tuberculosis had caused the deaths of others who may or may not have been suffering with silicotic irritation...
Other Rinehart & Dennis officials issued statements in which they claimed that an epidemic of pneumonia, not silicosis, was responsible for scores of deaths at Gauley Bridge. They charged that damage suits were filed by some men proved not to have worked in the tunnel and by others who worked only an hour or two. According to the apologists, the death list from various diseases did not exceed 50 out of some 2,000 workers...