Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trench pick. He too received a Congressional Medal of Honor, and decorations from six nations. From General Pershing he drew a simple tribute: "Here is America's greatest doughboy." During the war he held a "Jawbone" (temporary) commission as first lieutenant and was temporary captain for a brief period in 1919, but was eventually returned to his permanent rank of sergeant. Uncomplaining, he re-enlisted as a buck private, cashed out in 1923 as master sergeant after 22 years of service. Since then, balding, weather-beaten, publicity-shy, he has lived like any other Kentucky farmer. To U.S. oldsters...
...weeks Earl Brown's hoopsters have been working out afternoons in the Indoor Athletic Building. Rainy days, when compulsory exercise groups take over the floor, and the military review cut into the brief period which was limited by Brown's football duties and the advanced exam schedule...
Greeted by over 2,000 cheering students, His Excellency Manuelo Prado of Peru, the first South American President to visit the United States during his term of office, was welcomed yesterday morning under the American, Peruvian, and Harvard flags in front of University Hall before beginning a brief tour of the University...
...After a brief drive around the Common, to Craigle House and Radcliffe, the party proceeded to Dunster House where he was welcomed by Clarence Haring, professor of Latin American History and Economics. Haring showed the President the library and called on several students, too deeply engrossed in their books to recognize "His Excellency, the President of Peru...
Before leaving Cambridge for Boston and lunch with the Governor at the Harvard Club, Prado visited his son's club on Mount Auburn Street for champagne cocktails. After a brief glance at Lowell House and a final wave of his hat President Prado was escorted down Mount Auburn Street to Boston...