Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Josef Bürckel, 49, veteran Nazi Gauleiter in the Saar, Austria and Lorraine ; of pneumonia; in Germany. One of Hitler's earliest henchmen, liquor-swilling Bürckel developed from a dissatisfied elementary schoolteacher into Hitler's top plebiscite fixer...
...returning doctors told Fish & Wildlife Service last week that on their way home they had stopped off at Seattle to arrange for shipment of 10,000,000 units of penicillin to guard the Aleuts against pneumonia next winter...
Died. Edmund William Starling, 68, soft-mannered, hard-handed bodyguard and friend of five U.S. Presidents, from Wilson to Roosevelt (TIME, Oct. 4) ; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. Mildred Harris, 41, onetime cinemactress, first of Charles Chaplin's four wives; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. She was 16 when she married Chaplin in 1918. two years later divorced him, charging that "he never did anything but think." She married twice again, tried many cinema comebacks, in 1937 played in burlesque...
WPBoss Donald Nelson, a weak and weary pneumonia convalescent, won a big battle by telephone last week. Nelson had issued the first WPB directive permitting the resumption of civilian production. A majority of his lieutenants, backed solidly by the Army & Navy, had pigeonholed the order, in his absence (TIME, July...