Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Speaker of the House. Nominee Clark, militant Wet, was a genuine A. E. F. colonel. He helped found the American Legion in Paris. He practices law in St. Louis. In the primary he beat Charles M. Howell, passive Wet, who lay in a Kansas City hospital with double pneumonia as the result of too strenuous campaigning. His victory was a thumping defeat for Tom Pendergast, Democratic boss of Kansas City, whose machine, a miniature of Tammany Hall, had backed the Howell candidacy. "Boss" Pendergast used to be a wholesale liquor dealer; now he runs a ready-mixed concrete company...
Died. James R. Quirk, 48, editor & publisher of Photoplay, onetime (1928-30) publisher of Smart Set; of bronchial pneumonia and heart disease; in Hollywood...
Died. Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, 56, former Chancellor of Austria; of diabetes, tuberculosis and pneumonia; in a monastery at Pernitz, Austria. A professor of moral theology and political economy when the War began, he was Austria's Minister of Social Welfare when the Monarchy fell (1918). By using all his fine craft the bald, beak-nosed cleric put the Christian Socialists in command of the Austrian Republic, fortified his party rule with the Heimwehr (Home Guard). Austria was bankrupt. Chancellor Seipel visited in turn all the European capitals, making the nations believe that Austria planned alliance with one or another...
Died. Florenz Ziegfeld, 63, Manhattan showman, "glorifier of the American girl"; of heart failure following pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
Died. Enrico Malatesta, 82, "world's most consistently prosecuted anarchist"; of double pneumonia; in Rome. Born to the title of Count, which he renounced, he began his career of incitation at 19, was at various times barred from the U. S. and South America, spent 12 years in prisons, was sentenced to death in Italy, Spain, Argentina. For the past ten years he had lived quietly in Rome; according to his friends, a virtual prisoner of Premier Mussolini...