Word: illnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night an ambulance went clanging through the streets of Manhattan, carrying Heywood Broun's great bulk to the hospital. His grippe had turned into pneumonia, and he was gravely ill. Never in good health, his heart weakened by years of hard work and good living, Broun was close to death. As he fought his fever in a dim room high above the Hudson River, in the Presbyterian Hospital's Harkness Pavilion, he could reflect that he had at least put all his varied affairs in order...
...Assistant U. S. Attorney in New York, son of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes; and Miralotta Lucia Sauer, 25, daughter of a Winnetka pediatrician; in Winnetka, Ill. Best man: Secretary Ickes...
...Death Sentence" Public Utility Holding Company Act, Associated Gas and Electric's Howard Hopson spent $1,000,000 lobbying against it. With his roly-poly body and ear-to-ear smile, he became the utility industry's "mystery man" and lone wolf. Last week Hopson was hopelessly ill with heart disease, and Associated (a $1,000,000,000 system) was in financial trouble such as never caught up with it when he was at the helm...
When Hopson became ill, Associated was controlled by a junta consisting of his old partner J. I. Mange; Hopson's three sisters (Norma Jones, Perle Hopson, Amy Starch) ; his brother-in-law, Commercial Research's famed Dr. Daniel Starch. A few weeks ago Mr. Mange went calling on Jesse Jones to see about arranging an RFC loan. Soon Associated got the idea thai Mr. Jones's price for making the loan was a finger in management. Last week, Associated acquired a new president, a veteran Washington lawyer named Roger Whiteford, who is given to lecturing...
...West Frankfort, Ill., William Darnell, shot in the head 19 years before, sneezed and wheezed the bullet...