Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Hero Wilson Burgess had the most satisfying reward any radio ham hopes for: selection by his fellows of The American Radio Relay League as tops for the year and the annual William S. Paley Amateur Radio Award for contributing most usefully to the American people in 1938 through amateur radio. When photographers went around to take his picture, Ham Burgess squirmed diffidently, said: "Golly, I feel like Clark Gable...
...speech on national issues. He and his friends know well that he is already well-known from coast to coast, by name & fame if not in inner structure. Had they needed proof of this, the University of Illinois last week supplied it. A board of politically-uninfected faculty members awarded to Tom Dewey, for "enrichment of American life and welfare" by his racket-bustings, the Cardinal Newman Award for 1938. This honor, from a Roman Catholic lay foundation started 15 years ago by Father John A. O'Brien, son of a rich Peoria landowner, was awarded to Thomas Mann...
...when the Chaco War began, a captain at 28, major at 29, lieut. colonel before the war ended, chief of staff soon afterward. Meanwhile he married, fathered three sons, was cited for his daring raids; his rescue of a division won him Bolivia's highest military award. He joined all Bolivian military and social clubs, and wrote a book about his explorations...
...stood for The Star-Spangled Banner.* Both tributes were fitting, for Juárez is the most political and patriotic canto in the whole Warner cycle of epic biography. Produced at a cost of $2,000,000, over a period of two years, with the services of six Academy Award winners and a cast of 1,188, it is not only the most ambitious production in Warner history but by all odds the most spectacular picture of the year...
...free to go ahead and forge their own link between their respective fields of study. As parts of the same University, they can naturally do a better job than two institutions separated by the distance between Cambridge and New Haven. It may become possible for the Law School to award a special degree to those of their students who do work across the Charles. At any rate, closer cooperation will inevitably come, and with it better educated...