Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boyden '25; 2, W. E. Stilwell '25; 3, T. L. Eliot '25; 4, F. P. Weymer '26; 5, A. L. Hobson '24; 6, R. C. Storey Jr. '24; 7, B. McK. Henry '24; stroke, J. W. Adie '26; cox, B. H. Burnham...
...About the only consolation I can obtain in the matter is that they could not take it away from me at the polls. It was done by the stroke of a pen in the hands of a Governor of a friendly and neighboring state...
...death from an apoplectic stroke of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Duke of Cumberland until 1917 (when King George canceled the British titles of German Princes who supported the Triple Entente against the British Empire in the War), a single link in the chain of the history of the British Royal Family has been severed...
...take place until after Christmas. Recent despatches report that he is critically ill with brain, fever. Dr. Joseph Wirth, ex-Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs from May, 1921, to November, 1922, with the exception of a brief period, was reported to be dying in consequence of a stroke of apoplexy. Ex-Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria tried to coalesce the Nationalists under General Ludendorff and the Bavarian Nationalists under Dr. von Kahr, the Bavarian Dictator, by inviting negotiations between the two men. General Ludendorff, however, refused the invitation, which is not surprising considering that the two were mortal enemies...
Died. Ernest August, Duke of Brunswick-Liineberg, formerly Duke of Cumberland, 78, at Gmunden, Austria, after an apoplectic stroke...