Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clementine de Rochechouart de Crussol, Dowager Duchess d'Uzes, 85, for 60 years France's foremost socialite, able huntswoman, sculptress, novelist, playwright; of pneumonia, at the home of her daughter Duchess de Luynes...
Died. E. Temple Thurston, 53, British novel-a-year man (The City of Beautiful Nonsense, The Greatest Wish in the World), playwright (The Wandering Jew); of pneumonia; in London...
Died. John Leslie Urquhart, 58, British mining engineer and promoter, chairman of the Association of British Creditors of Russia ($900,000,000), bitter antiCommunist; of pneumonia; in London. After the Russian revolution he plotted, fought, howled in vain for his Russo-Asiatic Consolidated Mining Trust's $280,000,000 stake in Russian copper, zinc, lead and coal. In 1923 he recouped by getting a monopoly on Turkish imports and exports. Plump, dapper and grey, he sat behind David Lloyd George at The Hague as his adviser on Russian economics...
Died. Sir Henry Worth ("Hank") Thornton, 61, Indiana-born railroad renovator (England's Great Eastern, Canada's Canadian National); of pneumonia and uremic poisoning; in Manhattan. Giant (6-ft.-4-in.), ruddy Thornton played football for University of Pennsylvania (1891-94); was called from the Long Island Railroad in 1914 when Great Eastern's chairman found no "man in England capable of extricating us." Having solved Britain's complex Wartime train problems he was picked in 1922 for president & board chairman of Canadian National to save it from becoming "a spineless nuisance with nobody to kick...
Died. Edgar French Strother, 49, intermittently literary coach of onetime President Hoover and associate editor of the late World's Work (merged last year with Review of Reviews), Democrat; of pneumonia; in Washington...