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...Washington. Mr. Gray's first job, in 1883, was swabbing spittoons in a backwoods railroad depot. In 1937 his wife, Harriette Flora Gray, was elected "Typical American Mother." Last September a son, Dr. Howard K. Gray, surgeon at the Mayo Clinic, operated on James Roosevelt for a stomach ulcer (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Flemish v. Walloon crisis caused by patriotic War veterans (TIME, Feb. 20). He asked Walloon Catholic Henri Jaspar, who had been Premier from 1926 to 1930, to form a new Cabinet. After two days of fruitless interviews, Jaspar gave up; 36 hours later he died of a stomach ulcer about which he had told no one. Former Cabinet Minister Hubert Pierlot, also a Walloon-Catholic, tried next. He built up a Cabinet of Catholics and Socialists which toppled after exactly one week. King Leopold, who is said to feel that something old and yet new in the world-autocracy-might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Firm Hand | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Perennial president of his Princeton class (1923), as famed in college for his unobtrusive Christianity as for his athletic ability (varsity football end), this model son of model parents is recognized by the Doctors Mayo as their crack stomach surgeon. Because Son James Roosevelt's stomach ulcer failed to respond to rest and diet last summer (TIME, Aug. 22) he returned to the clinic last week. "Howdie" Gray was named to operate. President Roosevelt called for his special train and sped westward. After talking with the President. Dr. Gray moved the operation ahead 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: International Shift | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...philosophy is simple: Man, he says, is a product of his environment, and environment is "95% a shelter problem." Nine Chains to the Moon begins with a description of a modern city dweller, the unfortunate Mr. Murphy, jostled in the subway, unnerved by noise, threatened with peptic ulcer, bolting his meals, quarreling with his wife, depressed by the incessant pressure of city noises great and small, bewildered at the contrast between his efficient radio and his inefficient, cockroach-breeding house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dymaxion Utopia | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...Where James Roosevelt was reported markedly improved after treatments for a stomach ulcer, and planning to leave this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 18, 1938 | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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