Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrary, famed "Little Dollfuss" (4 ft. 11 in.), whose friends compare him to "Little Corporal" Napoleon, was very much Chancellor of Austria last week, and doing his best to cure the Hitlerite sniffles before they should become political pneumonia. Rumors reached Vienna that some of the frontier posts dividing Austria and Germany had been pulled up in the night. Anything might happen. The fact that Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany is by birth an Austrian increased the danger that Austrian Nazis might be able to seize the Government, helped (according to further rumors) by 60,000 German Nazis supposed...
Died. Walter Hiers, 39, fat (258 Ib.) film comedian; of bronchial pneumonia; in Hollywood, Calif...
Died. Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak, 59, Mayor of Chicago; of gangrenous pneumonia resulting from a gunshot wound; in Miami where he had been hospitalized since the night of Feb. 15 when in Bay Front Park he was hit in the abdomen by a bullet aimed by Assassin Joe Zangara at President-elect Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 27). Born in Bohemia, Cermak was taken to the U. S. when one year old. He drove a mule in Illinois coal mines before he was 12. In Chicago he started as a teamster, built up his own trucking company, expanded into real estate...
Died. John Henry Markham Jr., 52, president of Petroleum Corporation of America ($100.000,000 investment trust), board chairman of Tulsa's Exchange National Bank, papal knight; of pneumonia; in Chicago...
Died, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, 71, sister of the late President, mother of onetime (1924-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, relict of Manhattan Realtor Douglas Robinson; of pleural pneumonia; in Manhattan. Poetess (The Call of Brotherhood, Out of Nymph), politician, in the 1932 campaign she supported local Republican candidates but not President Hoover because "my own beloved niece is the wife of the Democratic candidate...