Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Jay Curtis, 74, president and co-founder of Publishers Bobbs-Merrill & Co.; of pneumonia; in Indianapolis, Ind. Bobbs-Merrill published first the writings of Poet James Whitcomb Riley; second, Charles Major's novel When Knighthood Was in Flower. Publisher Curtis invented colored book jackets...
...Peiping-Hankow railways, then started north through Hopei Province, apparently bound for the port of Tientsin. Nationalist Manchurian troops along this front were leaderless, since Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Army, Navy and Air Force, was in a Peiping hospital, officially with pneumonia, which was rumored to be really a bullet-hole inflicted by his own bodyguard, bought off by the Cantonese...
...normal eye is not an exact science. Reason for ophthalmologic inexactness doubtless lies in the nature of the human crowd. Two generations ago the medical crowd herded toward contagious diseases. A generation ago the crowd swerved toward tuberculosis. Currently there are three bright foci of attention-cancer, heart disease, pneumonia. Cancer, through its experts, has made itself the brightest, to the vexation of the heart men, who are impatiently waiting for a cancer cure or a change of public attention. Waiting hopefully in the offing are specialties, as that of the eye. The Medical Center Eye Institute will...
Died. Charles A. Mooney, 52, U. S. Representative from the 20th Ohio District (Cleveland) from 1919 to 1921 and since 1923, member of the Rivers & Harbors Committee; of pneumonia; in Cleveland...
Died. Edmund Arthur Stanley Clarke, 69, secretary since 1923 of the American Iron & Steel Institute, onetime (1904-18) president of Lackawanna Steel Co., president of Consolidated Steel Corp. (export firm for independent steel makers) until it was dissolved; of pneumonia; in Rumson...