Word: pneumoniae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were 267,026 fewer deaths than the U.S. would have had if 1940 mortality rates had prevailed. Pneumonia and influenza suffered the sharpest defeat: penicillin and sulfa drugs saved about 57,000 from these diseases...
...priestly "high treason." The Rev. Alois Fajstl, the state announced, had been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment plus confiscation of his property and loss of civil rights for ten years. The charge: when called to give the last rites of the church to a woman apparently dying of pneumonia, Father Fajstl first asked if she were a Communist, then withheld the sacrament until she had sent her son to party headquarters to turn in her membership card. Instead of dying, the government said, the woman recovered and denounced the priest for thus applying the recent Vatican decree of excommunication...
Died. Philip Dansken ("P.D.") Ross, 91, dean of Canadian newspapermen, millionaire publisher (for 62 years) of Canada's most widely quoted paper, the Tory Ottawa Journal (circ. 56,293); of hypostatic pneumonia; in Ottawa...
Died. Sir Bernard Pares, 82, historian and authority on Russia; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. British-born, non-Communist Sir Bernard (George V knighted him in 1919 for helping the short-lived pro-Allied Kerensky government) visited Russia more than 20 times, was firmly convinced that Stalin (unlike Lenin and Trotsky) was a patriot interested only in his own country's security (rather than ia world revolution and Communist domination...
Died. Chase Salmon Osborn, 89, author, prospector, philanthropist and onetime progressive Republican Governor of Michigan (1911-12); of pneumonia; in Poulan, Ga. Osborn made a fortune from iron ore discoveries in Canada, Lapland, Africa and Latin America (he gave most of the money to charity), sponsored one of the first workmen's compensation bills in the nation, Michigan's first women's suffrage measure. Two days before his death, he married Stellanova Osborn, 55, his longtime secretary and adopted daughter (after a court dissolved the adoption...