Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concluding a wartime program that supplied 487 doctors to the armed forces, the Medical School will award degrees to 76 Army and 49 Navy students to be commissioned simultaneously tomorrow morning at Vanderbilt Hall...
Signs of Spring. Work was piled on his desk. He left it long enough to award Medals for Merit for wartime services to the F.B.I.'s stocky J. Edgar Hoover, the ODT's leathery John Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson, the Association of American Railroads' President John Jeremiah Pelley...
...result of the ensuing storm, his friends decided that he had been "abused" long enough. Last week 500 left-wingers, including Diego Rivera and Dolores del Rio, who extended the hand of fellowship (see cut), gathered in big, drafty Chapultepec Restaurant in Mexico City, gave Lombardo a dreamed-up award: "Decoration of the Combatant." Citation: the Mexican "most assailed by reactionaries and imperialists...
...There is no objection to Rooney's wearing his Bronze Star, but I do claim that every fraternizing fraulein in Germany and every geisha girl in Japan should get the same award. After all, they entertained the troops...
Norman Corwin, radio's 35-year-old wonder boy, enjoyed a week befitting his prestige. He won the first Wendell Willkie Award-a trip around the world, sponsored by Freedom House and the Common Council for American Unity. Skipping lightly over all other U.S. writers and artists, the two organizations thought Corwin's On a Note of Triumph and other writings the best "contributions [of 1945] to the concept of One World, in the field of mass communication...