Word: award
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chauffeurs, colonels, farmers, and a few noble lords, laughed and patted him on the back. Three hundred and twenty-one holders of the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military award, had gathered to dine with Edward of Wales, were waiting to walk in to tables laid in the royal gallery. In age they ranged from Lieut. Colonel James Henry Reynolds, 86, who won his cross fighting Zulus in 1879, to Sergeant Thomas Ricketts, 28, who won his when 17 on the Western Front. So poor are many V. C.'s that H. R. H. had had his invitations...
Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Secretary of State, sponsor of the Kellogg Peace Pact, was given the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, highest award of France, by Paul Claudel. French Ambassador to the U. S. Said Ambassador Claudel: "This red and flaming badge of honor could find no better place than across your chest...
...guided the ship for nearly 60 trial hours. It seemed such a reliable instrument, so useful in relieving the pilot from constant attention to controls, so much more quick and accurate than a sleepy pilot in moving the controls, that Secretary of War Good permitted the War Department to award it one of its rare encomiums: "The auto-matic pilot has arrived...
...Austin Scholarships in Architecture have been received by George Katsutoshi Nakashima 1 S.A., Ross Lloyd Snedaker 3 S. A., Russell Train Smith 3 S.A., and T. Gerald Kronick 2 S. A. Harold Douglass Hill 3 S.A. has been awarded a Joseph Evelith Scholarship, and Gordon Titus Rideout is the holder of a Frederick E. Parlin award...
...establishment of a new scholastic award, to be known as the Edwards Whitaker Prize Scholarship, has been made possible by a recent gift from Mrs. Samuel Davis, it was announced Saturday at University Hall. In addition, a second Edwards Whitaker Scholarship will be established...