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Last week in Manhattan, a new medal was awarded for the first time by the Society of Automotive Engineers. It was given to Col. Howard Marmon, vice president and chief engineer of the Marmon Motor Car Co., Indianapolis. Colonel Marmon comes from an engineering family. Nordyke & Marmon, flour mill machinery, was founded by his father in Indianapolis 80 years ago. During the War, Engineer Marmon was one of the developers of the Liberty Motor. Frederick E. Moskovics, president of Improved Products Co. (promoters), onetime officer of Marmon Co., was donor of the award. He stipulated that each year it should...
...Lampy with the dictum that the cartoon is "the worst insult ever perpetrated by a college publication against womanhood." William Randolph Hearst, tycoon of the "American" and one time Lampoon editor did not choose to comment. It only remains for the Boston press to hand out their ever ready award of bibs and lollypops...
...Lindbergh which "through the wildest stretch of the imagination, could not be construed as 'part of the duties incident to' ... membership [in the Missouri National Guard or the Air Corps Reserve]." Public clamor demanded a D. F. C. for Lindbergh, and the Air Corps expediently recommended the award...
...Paper. Dr. Merle A. Tuve, physicist of the Carnegie Institution's department of terrestrial magnetism, read a paper worth $1,000, the annual Association award for outstanding address of the meeting. With three fellow physicists, Drs. L. R. Hafsted and Odd Dahl of Carnegie Institution and Dr. Gregory Breit of New York University, he worked for several years to develop a two-million-volt tube which produces X-rays equivalent to the gamma rays of 182 million dollars worth of radium. Laboratory significance : scientists by using these powerful rays may be able to burst the atom nucleus. Practical significance...
told a group of newshawks: "If I were God I would have come down and cuffed that man [Sinclair] Lewis - he'd never have gone to Stockholm to collect that Nobel award!" Observers suspected that if Evangelist Sunday were God he would have cuffed Author Lewis much more severely on the occasion of his defying the Deity from the pulpit of a church (TIME...