Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Henri Barbusse, 62, novelist, Pacifist, Communist; of pneumonia; in Moscow, where he attended sessions of the Seventh World Communist Party Congress. Son of a French atheist and an Englishwoman, Barbusse enlisted in the War as a private, was invalided out three times, twice cited for bravery. His war book, Le Feu, won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 despite militarists who attacked its "defeatism...
...Foaled by a dam who pulled a cart for a New Jersey hat peddler, a farm horse until she was 6, Goldsmith Maid had raced only once at 8, made her best time (2:14) at 19, was still a champion at 20, died of pneumonia...
Died. Frank Harris Hitchcock, 65, Postmaster General in the Taft Administration, publisher of the Tucson Daily Citizen; of pneumonia; in Tucson, Ariz. As Postmaster General he started postal savings, parcel post, airmail...
Died. Mme Marthe Hanau, 49, French arch-swindler; of pneumonia following a suicide attempt (poison); in a Paris prison hospital after serving most of a three-year term for fraud. Through her newspaper, Gazette du Franc, she gave financial "tips" to small investors who lost more than $4,000,000 when her pyramid of holding companies collapsed in December 1928 in the greatest scandal France had known since...
Died. Mrs. Virginia Fair ("Birdie") Vanderbilt, 55. first wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt II; of pneumonia ; in Manhattan. Daughter of James Graham Fair, Irish immigrant boy who went West with the '49ers, bought into the Comstock Lode and became a U. S.. Senator. "Birdie" Fair followed the footsteps of her elder Sister "Tessie" (Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs) by making a brilliant marriage to a top-flight socialite. A devout Roman Catholic, she got a Paris divorce in 1927, assumed the name Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt...