Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John Carl Williams Hinshaw, 62, Republican work horse on the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee and the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, authority on aviation; of pneumonia; in Bethesda...
...Stevenson had had four stints in hospitals: for removal of a kidney stone a month before the Democratic National Convention in 1952, for treatment and then surgery for a second kidney stone in 1954 (he takes pills in the hope of preventing more stones), for a bout with bronchial pneumonia (five days in the hospital) in 1955. Missouri's U.S. Senator Stuart Symington underwent a nerve operation for the relief of high blood pressure and hypertension in 1947; New York's Governor Averell Harriman is now convalescing from a prostate operation that kept him in the hospital for 15 days...
Died. Adrian Rollini, 51, xylophone player in the Adrian Rollini Trio, jazz-age member of the famed California Ramblers (other Ramblers: Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Ted Weems); of pneumonia and complications; in Homestead...
...returned to Bonn last September feeling he had been broken by blackmail and hating himself for it. Three weeks later, weary, downhearted and restless, he took a lonely walk one foggy night along the murky Rhine, hands clasped behind his back. Next day he came down with bronchial pneumonia...
Died. General (ret.) Kazushige Ugaki, 87, onetime (1925-31) War Minister of Japan, Foreign Minister (1938), Governor General of Korea (1931-36), member of the Japanese Diet since 1953; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Acting on the Emperor's mandate in 1937, peace-minded Ugaki made a stab at the premiership, was blocked by rightist warlords who distrusted him for shearing the army of four divisions...