Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President was also made White Chief and Protector of the Sioux Indians. Chief Henry Standing Bear administered the oath of fealty, said: "Mr. President, it is a great honor to us that you have come among us and into our camp. . . . Our fathers and our chiefs, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail and Red Cloud, may have made mistakes, but their hearts were brave and strong, their purposes were honest and noble. They have long gone to their Happy Hunting Ground, and we call upon you, as our new High Chief, to take up their leadership ... to protect and help the weak...
...President thought that the U. S. should honor the Chamberlin flight as impressively as the Lindbergh flight. He hoped it would be legally possible to confer the Distinguished Flying Cross on Mr. Chamberlin. (Mr. Chamberlin is a civilian but would be eligible to the Cross by joining either an army or navy reserve corps. So, presumably, would Mr. Levine...
...business of supplying Germany with military information; that advantage of the Anti-Semetic feeling had been taken to victimize Alfred Dreyfus for their wrongdoing. Captain Dreyfus was restored to the active list of the army with rank of Major and was created a knight of the Legion of Honor. So ended a case which had resulted in the discrediting of French militarism and contributed largely to the disestablishment of the French Church...
...dismissed for infraction of rules. He joined the Army as an assistant surgeon (1886). He served as medical and line officer with Captain Henry Ware Lawton in the great campaign of 1886 against the Apache Indians. For that service Congress in 1898 gave him its Congressional Medal of Honor...
...jail. " 'E's a ticket o'-leave-man, still, though," said the gardener sadly, "the Marster, on account 'e is out o' jail two years early, 'as to put in 'is ticket to them? every month!" Soon the villagers hung out flags and other tokens to honor open-handed Squire Bottomley...