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...news that pneumonia had laid big, bustling George F. low was sad indeed to most dwellers in the Valley. It was bitter beer of another brew to A. F. of L. and C. I. 0. organizers, who arrived in the Valley two years ago to spread the gospel of the Wagner Act. Their sermons seemed to make no sense: they said that what George F.'s workers needed was a union to protect them from George...
Scarcely able to move, so weakened was she by pneumonia, 69-year-old Mary Kincaid lay in bed in her Wildwood, N. J. home while her husband Henry, 84, took care of her. Last week Henry, ill himself, lay down beside her, died. Desperately, Mary Kincaid tried to raise her husky voice in a cry for help, lay there helpless for two days, finally summoned strength enough to rise, totter to the window, beckon in a passerby...
...Pneumonia took John Merrill yesterday, at 75, and it will be hard to get used to the idea. For years he had offices in the Crimson building, a good and friendly neighbor. Monday nights, particularly, we would see him, when he was putting the Bulletin together. He was a middle-sized man, gray, with a proud moustache, a twinkle in his eye, and a ready chuckle. The spring in his step and a military posture belied his age by at least a score of years. His desk was forever a chaos of books and manuscripts and photos, but somehow...
...With hunger and cold came pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, pleurisy, aggravations of cardiac and diabetic cases, said the society's matter-of-fact report...
Died. Arsene Paulin Pujo, 78, tall, stately, renowned chairman of the trust-busting Pujo Congressional committee of 1911-13; of pneumonia, in Lake Charles, La. The Pujo committee was the first to third-degree J. P. Morgan Sr. and his "inner circle" of finance control; it was basic for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914, the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange...