Word: streptococcus
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...Republican Boss John Henry Roraback ruled Connecticut. Last week, aged 67, he killed himself. The suicide, with a pistol at his hunting lodge after a morning's target practice, was an act of strong will and not neurosis, and behind it lay a year's sickness (a streptococcus infection). Behind that was the story of a poor country boy who became a public utilities tycoon worth some $10,000,000. Behind that was the story of the electrification of Connecticut, a politico-financial chapter of U. S. history without peer as an illustration of what current historians call...
...family (see cut). Nor were they the only family members at the White House. Only members absent were Daughter Anna, now living in Seattle with her husband John Boettiger, newly chosen to run William Randolph Hearst's Post-Intelligencer; Son Franklin Jr., lying in a Boston hospital with streptococcus and sinus trouble; Franklin Jr.'s fiancee Ethel du Pont, and one grandchild. William Donner Roosevelt, son of Elliott's first wife. But all the rest of the family were present, including Son Elliott's five-month-old Elliott Jr. and Son James's captivating Kate...
...press as "sinus trouble." The young man did have infected sinuses, and he was in the capable, Republican hands of Dr. George Loring Tobey Jr., a fashionable and crackerjack Boston ear, nose & throat specialist. He also had a graver affliction, septic sore throat, and there was danger that the Streptococcus haemolyticus might get into his blood stream. Once there the germs might destroy the red cells in his blood. In such a situation, a rich and robust Harvard crewman is no safer from death than anybody else...
Died, Patrick ("Packey") McFarland, 47, famed oldtime lightweight, welterweight boxer; of a streptococcus infection; in Joliet, Ill. In eleven years (1904-15) he fought 108 fights, scored 48 knockouts, lost the decision only once...
Died. Michael Dole, 2, grandson of Founder James Drummond Dole of Hawaiian Pineapple Co.; of a streptococcus infection; in San Francisco...