Uncomfortable with a cold in his nose last week was President Roosevelt. AAAdministrator Chester Charles Davis, FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins, House Majority Leader William Brockman Bankhead also had colds. Influenza and pneumonia had incapacitated so many Government officials and employes that Washington doctors broadcast warnings of a potential epidemic.
In Texas, Governor James V. Allred was laid up by influenza.
In New Jersey an eminent victim of influenza was Professor Albert Einstein. Some of the lawyers and witnesses in the Hauptmann murder trial at Remington had the sniffles, but not severely enough to impede...
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