Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came to Giacomo Puccini, famed composer, at Brussels, Belgium, where he had gone for radium treatment for tumor of the throat. Weakened by the treatment, he died of a heart attack. While he lay dying, his opera Madame Butterfly was being presented at the Costanza Theatre, Rome. On the day of his death, his opera La Boheme was presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, where, after the third act, Chopin's Funeral March was played by the orchestra. In Italy, Premier Mussolini announced that Puccini's funeral would be paid...
...passed exempting U. S. vessels in coastwise trade from toll, but Great Britain objected that this was a violation of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty under which the U. S., formerly a partner in the canal business with Great Britain, acquired sole rights in the project and promised equal treatment to "all nations." Elihu Root, then a Senator, held that the law violated our treaty promise. President Wilson and Ambassador Page took the same attitude. In the Spring of 1914. the President asked that the law be repealed. After a bitter wrangle for several months this was done. Party lines were...
September -- Professor Baker's courses are discontinued and he leaves Cambridge on Sabbatical leave. Rumor he will leave Harvard permanently is denied. CRIMSON and prominent graduates decry his shameful treatment at the hands of the University authorities and warn he will leave permanently unless some action is taken...
...peasant afterwards explained that he had received cruel treatment at the hands of Knätsch while a prisoner-of-war in Germany...
...President of the Cammarian Club of Brown University, I wish to express to Harvard students and alumni the apologies of our undergraduate body for the conduct of our over-enthusiastic students in tearing down the Harvard goal posts. We have always appreciated the courtesy and treatment shown the Brown teams and students visiting Cambridge, and we regret exceedingly that this should have happened. Very truly yours. Parkman Sayward...