Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Belasco. For all the time that he was bringing new realities to the stage- placing live roses at the heroine's bed, using real antiques for historical settings- he was busy fictionizing himself. When he died in Manhattan last week, debilitated by a severe attack of pneumonia in November, his last words were: "Doctor, I am fighting for my life." So well had Producer Belasco warped the web of legend about himself that his age could only be approximated at 77. The Belasco legend begins with his father. Humphrey Abraham Belasco, a descendant of Portuguese Jews who fled...
...Ward's Villa Rosemary, the cold grew worse. Bronchial complications set in; her heart became affected. Dr. Robert Louis Levy, chief of the cardiac department of New York's Presbyterian Medical Center, was summoned by plane from Paris, but oxygen and his skill were no match for pneumonia and an aged heart. When Ambassador Edge, at the personal request of President Hoover, telephoned Cap Ferrat next morning he was told that Mrs. Reid had died quietly ten minutes before. Her body was taken to Paris, to the home of Ogden Mills, which General Pershing made his War headquarters...
Four doctors were in the sick room, including Dr. George David Stewart, in whose name Mr. Baker had created a $1,000,000 surgery endowment at New York University. An oxygen tank was ready but it was never used. Mr. Baker's pneumonia grew worse. At 6 o'clock Dr. Stewart left and gloomily told the Death Watch that Mr. Baker could not last the night. The afternoon newspapermen left. Four reporters were still damning the cold night and the lack of a shelter when Mr. Baker's secretary summoned them into the house and announced that the aged financier...
Died. Walter Robarts Addicks, 70, gas engineer, senior vice president of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York, onetime (1904-12) president of United Electric Light & Power Co., director of many a utility corporation; of pneumonia, on his 70th birthday; in Manhattan...
Died. Isaac Gimbel, 74, board chairman and retired president of Gimbel Bros. Inc. (Gimbel Bros, and Saks, seven department stores in Manhattan, Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh); of bronchial pneumonia, after several years paralysis; at "Chieftains," his Port Chester, N. Y. home. Born in Vincennes, Ind., son of a Bavarian immigrant storekeeper, he grew up in the business, ran many a store with his father and his brother Jacob. Opening the Manhattan store in 1910, he succeeded President Jacob ("The Judge") Gimbel at his death in 1922, merged the business with Saks & Co. in 1923. He retired...