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Died. Louis Eckstein, 70, capitalist, onetime magazine publisher (Red Book, Blue Book, Green Book), founder and president of Chicago's Ravinia Opera Company; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Obliged by heavy losses to discontinue Ravinia's summer opera in 1931, Mr. Eckstein estimated he had spent $1,000,000 in its support...
Died, William Haynes Truesdale, 83. retired president and board chairman of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad ; of bronchial pneumonia; in Greenwich, Conn. Harddriving, he opposed legislative restrictions on railroads, wage increases and eight-hour-day laws. During his term (1899-1925) D. L. & W. paid $192,000,000 in cash dividends on a property worth...
...Turkish Empire. This wasted invalid, the League of Nations, at whose bedside the faithful Marianno stands with a melancholy smile and a hypodermic needle, is that child born so auspiciously in 1919 with racking labor pains to Woodrow Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George, that same child whose bronchial wheezings on the shore of Lake Geneva for the past sixteen years have so worried a hopeful world...
...Because Secretary Louis McHenry Howe lay seriously ill of bronchial and heart trouble in the White House, the Roosevelts quietly celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary on St. Patrick's Day with a family picnic on the Maryland side of the Potomac. Mrs. Roosevelt announced that from now on she is going to live a "quiet life...
Died. Franklin MacVeagh, 94, onetime (1909-13) Secretary of the Treasury, longtime wholesale grocer, great-uncle of U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Farm-born, Yale-bred, he entered politics as a Democrat, could not stomach the Bryan Silver Policy, turned Republican, later disturbed Republicans by urging lower tariffs. In 1928 he supported the Smith candidacy...