Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Colorado's new lethal gas chamber at Canon City last week Warden Roy Best put a crated hog. When he turned on the gas the hog squealed, struggled, died. Next into the chamber he put an old dog, a pigeon, a brace of canaries. They all died. Nearby in a cell sat William Cody Kelley, shifty-eyed farmhand. Refused clemency, he prayed quietly for his pretty 23-year-old wife, his 4-month-old baby. Unable to finance an appeal, he was to be the first man executed in Colorado without a review of his case...
...world before 1922 is the disease now called granulopenia. During the past three years it killed 1,300 U. S. people, mostly housewives. Physicians, nurses and their families suffered high mortality. Rarely has a poor person died of the disease, rarely a Negro. Finding out why became Dr. Roy Rachford Kracke's job at Emory University, Atlanta. Clever reasoning led him to suspect certain new-fangled pain-killing drugs manufactured from benzamine derivatives of coal tar. Negroes, who seldom complain of minor aches or pains, do not use those drugs. Poor people cannot afford them. Doctors get them...
...evening Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, 51. who delivered the quintuplets, telephoned his brother Dr. William Allan Dafoe. 40. Toronto obstetrician: "Can you come out this way? I need your moral support...
...Allan Roy Dafoe. a stocky little grey-haired practitioner who has delivered some 1,500 children in frontier Ontario, leaped nimbly into his clothes when Ovila timidly rapped at the door. In the doctor's Dodge they drove back to the Dionne house...
...Allan Roy Dafoe, 51, graduate of the University of Toronto, has been practicing at Callander for 26 years, is the district's medical officer and coroner. Obstetrics has always been a large part of his practice among the prolific French-Canadians. His youngest mother was 13, his oldest 63. Once he delivered a two-headed monster. One of his patients has borne 23 children, only one of whom has died, and that one, said Dr. Dafoe last week when he had an opportunity to relax in the wicker easy-chair in his library, "was dead at birth...