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Died. Harry Payne Whitney, 58; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Scion of a distinguished Puritan line, he inherited a large part of the fortune* founded by his father, William Collins Whitney, Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland organizer of the Metropolitan Street Railway System (New York) and other traction and rail corporations. In 1890 he married Gertrude, sculptress daughter of the second Cornelius Vanderbilt. His children: Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny ) Whitney, Mrs. Flora Payne (G . MacCullough) Miller, Mrs. Barbara (Barklie McKee) Henry. Among corporations of which he was a director were Mammoth Oil Co., Sinclair Oil Co., Guaranty Trust...
...Even though facts show that alcohol is both a food and poison, it is a poison that steadily progresses. In cases of pneumonia alcoholics are almost surely doomed, and no one is immune from pneumonia. The deaths after prohibition have decreased from 80 percent to 35 percent. In cases of tuberculosis the decrease is just as marked, and deaths from cirrhosis of the liver went down one-third after the prohibition...
Early one morning last week at Baton Rouge, James J. Bailey, Louisiana's Secretary of State, died suddenly of pneumonia. Governor Huey Parham Long, the State's 36-year-old political dictator, went around to the Bailey home to offer condolences. When he returned to the capitol, he said to pretty little Miss Alice Lee Grosjean, his hazel-eyed, auburn-haired, 24-year-old confidential secretary: "Miss Grosjean, write out a commission appointing Miss Alice Lee Grosjean Secretary of State, effective at once." An hour later Miss Grosjean took the oath of office, telephoned her parents at Shreveport...
...American Die & Forge Co. and of the Axwell Equipment Co. of Pittsburgh, brother of Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, son of the late Barrister Reed who was a leading force in welding Carnegie and Morgan steel interests and a partner of the late famed Philander Chase Knox; of pneumonia, at the Presbyterian Hospital, in Manhattan...
...Well, if I may?" said once omnipotent Dr. Irigoyen humbly and, as the officer nodded, he put on his hat. On certificate of the garrison physician that he really had pneumonia, El Hombre went not to jail but into a barrack bed. Pen and paper were brought. Feebly but without hesitation the sick man wrote his resignation...