Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...selection is made annualy to a major H winner by H.A.A. Director William J. Bingham '16 and Dean Bender. Although a needy athlete will receive money from the award, Dean Bender explained yesterday that its purpose was to honor, not to subsidize...
...sieving through trade statistics in Washington, and almost anybody with a college degree could get into the intriguing act. But when the army needed combat intelligence in a hurry, it usually sent out none but hand-picked "Joes." This fast-moving novel, which won the first $15,000 award of the Catholic Society of the Christophers (TIME, April 14, 1947), tells what happened when the army dropped three volunteers behind the German lines in the last winter of fighting...
Harry Truman, speaking to the Legionnaires, had a message he wanted sensitive Britons to overhear: visiting British economists could expect "friendliness and helpfulness from the U.S." Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, onetime commander of the Legion, presented Mr. Truman with the Legion's Distinguished Service Medal, its highest award. Said Secretary Johnson: "In his simplicity, his humility, his charm, his humor, his devotion to his friends . . . our friend and fellow veteran Harry Truman never seems to change...
Died. Starr Nelson, 84, oldest flying farmer in the U.S. (he got his pilot's license in 1941), who had logged over 1,000 hours in the air; of a heart attack; in Estes Park, Colo, (where he was to receive a fourth successive annual award at the National Flying Farmers convention...
Some of the nation's top poets and writers, as Fellows in American Letters of the Library of Congress, had joined last winter in awarding a $1,000 prize for the best 1948 American poetry to Ezra Pound, a man of large and warped talents. They had expected trouble. "The Fellows," they said, "are aware that abjections may be made to awarding a prize to a man situated as is Mr. Pound." Mr. Pound at that moment was 1) in an insane asylum and 2) under indictment for high treason against the U.S. for serving Mussolini as an anti...