Word: pneumonia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Claret and more than 100 others floated more than an hour before a British patrol boat sighted them. The skipper of the patrol boat recognized the Minnehaha's captain in the water, boomed out: "I say, is that you, Claret?" "Aye, it's me!" Claret boomed back. Pneumonia nearly killed him after that...
Died. Frederick Landis, 62, only Republican Congressman-elect from Indiana, journalist, novelist, brother of Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis; of pneumonia; in Logansport...
Died. Edward West ("Daddy") Browning. 59, eccentric Manhattan real-estate tycoon and orphan fancier; of a heart attack following pneumonia and cerebral hemorrhage; in Scarsdale, N. Y. His antics, matrimonial and otherwise, with Frances ("Peaches") Heenan (see p. 53) and other girls adopted by him, made bales of lurid copy, sent Manhattan tabloid circulation soaring...
Died. Ganson Depew, 68, attorney, Buffalo's "Citizen No. 1," nephew of the late Chauncey Depew; of pneumonia; in Buffalo...
Died. Major General George Herbert Harries (retired), 74; of pneumonia; in Waverly, Md. He was Wartime Commander of the port of Brest, France, through which passed most U. S. War supplies. As chief of the U. S. Military Mission to Germany he was the first U. S. officer to enter Berlin after the Armistice...