Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broken and incoherent that her attorney, Montgomery Winn, could talk with her only a few minutes at a time. Lieut. Massie sat by her hour after hour, trying to console and assure her. Her hysterical condition was aggravated by her anxiety for her husband, Major Fortescue, ill with pneumonia in far-off Manhattan. She wanted him by her side when she went on trial for murder...
Died. Seymour Wemyss Smith, 35, editor of The Financial Digest; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. He was famed for his contention that John Hanson, not George Washington, was the first Presi dent of the U. S., that the U. S. was created...
Died. Rt. Hon. William Graham, 44, British statesman famed for his knowledge of finance, president of the Board of Trade in the late Labor government; of pneumonia ; in London...
Died. Wilson Alwyn Bentley, 66, famed authority on s,owflakes; of pneumonia; in Jericho, Vt. He had a collection of 5,300 photomicrographs he had made of snow crystals, no two alike. He also photographed frost...
Died. John Manning van Heusen, 63, inventor of the first semisoft collar; of pneumonia; in Scarsdale, N. Y. He patented his collar in 1913. marketed it in 1921 with Phillips Jones Co. which has sole manufacturing rights. In 1922 Inventor Van Heusen and Phillips Jones Co. successfully sued the bulk of the U. S. collar industry for infringement of patents. In the following year, however, Inventor Van Heusen was sued for $6,000,000 by John B. Bolton. For patents he had assigned to Van Heusen, Inventor Bolton later received $1,000,000. Other Van Heusen inventions: nonslip garters, nonslip...