Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trustee. Six weeks later, when the special audit was completed, Joseph resigned voluntarily. Lawyers' fees for the eight-year quarrel were $1,012,500. Joseph died in 1932. He caught cold watching horse races at New Orleans, insisted on returning to the track blanketed in a wheelchair, took pneumonia. His estate totalled approximately $1,000,000. Sister Mary died in 1906, with no sons to inherit her husband's title. Lord Curzon married again, a Mrs. Alfred Duggan; was elevated to be a Marquess, making Mrs. Duggan a Marchioness. Sister Nancy died in 1930. Sister Marguerite lives...
...From a wheelchair in Chicago Explorer Osa Johnson resumed lecturing less than a week after witnessing the burial at Chanute, Kans. of her husband Martin, killed in a Western Air Express crash in January that nearly cost her life (TIME, Jan. 25). Declared she, still pained by a brace on her right leg: "I want to get back to the jungles. I could never stand it to stay here in civilization very long. So can't we talk about lions or elephants or orangutans or a beautiful sunset in Borneo...
Near Asbury Park, N. J., Invalid Hermann Schaar, 65, had his sons push his wheelchair into the woods, sat still while his dogs rounded up game, bagged six rabbits without moving...
...Ohio, Arthur W. Aleshire of Springfield, although paralyzed from hips down, operates a filling station from a wheelchair and, like Franklin Roosevelt, drives an automobile by means of manual controls. Running as a Democrat with Union Party support, Mr. Aleshire defeated Representative Leroy Marshall, Republican who had survived the Democratic landslides...
...President's insistence on respect for his privacy and dignity. But on one score news photographers have repaid his past graciousness in full. Just as mention of his lameness in print is ordinarily avoided, so no Press photograph or cinema newsreel ever shows Franklin Roosevelt rolling in his wheelchair or walking awkwardly with the aid of his stick...