Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Richet, 85, French physiologist, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Science (for his work on anaphylaxis) ; of bronchial pneumonia; in Paris...
Since then his activities have been largely in the philanthropic field. In Gloversville he erected the Nathan Littauer Hospital and Laboratory in memory of his father. This led him to a broad interest in the support of medical research, particularly in the fields of pneumonia, diabetes, cancer, mental hygiene, and heart disease...
Died. Louis Eckstein, 70, capitalist, onetime magazine publisher (Red Book, Blue Book, Green Book), founder and president of Chicago's Ravinia Opera Company; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Obliged by heavy losses to discontinue Ravinia's summer opera in 1931, Mr. Eckstein estimated he had spent $1,000,000 in its support...
Died. Crowell Hadden. 40, half-brother of the late Briton Hadden (cofounder of TIME, died 1929) ; suddenly, of pneumonia following acute appendicitis; at Glen Cove, N. Y. Since his brother's death a director of TIME Inc., Crowell Hadden went from Princeton (1917) into the War (1st Lieut., 106th Field Artillery, 27th Division), became in 1930 a partner of J. E. Aldred & Co. (New York bankers...
Ohio State officials inspected the Uni-versity coal bins, found 700 tons of fuel on hand. They inspected the maintenance fund, found only $505.23. Unless students were to catch pneumonia, they figured, the University would have to close in ten days. For half a year they had been trying vainly to arouse the public to the predicament of a cashless University. A new tack was clearly indicated. Presently in the Ohio State Journal appeared a doleful story pointing out that if the Uni-versity stopped functioning, so would the football team...