Word: medaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commander Edward Ellsberg, U. S. Naval Reserve, the man who raised the sunken submarines S-51 and 54, only man to have received the Distinguished Service Medal in peacetime had conferred upon him the degree doctor of engineering, honoris causa, Aug. 24, by the University of Colorado, the institution he left in 1910 to enter the U. S. Naval Academy...
Married. Diego Rivera, of Mexico City, mural painter, 1929 winner of the Fine Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architecture (TIME, May 6); and one Frieda Kohlo; in Coyoacan, Mexico...
...biggest houses in Hollywood. She yearly wins the Hollywood women's tennis championship, weekly or oftener takes a bath in starched water to preserve her beauty. Once she danced with the Prince of Wales and won a diving contest staged for him. Once she won a medal by holding a smile longer than other competing actresses. She drives a Chrysler car, dresses in a room mounted on wheels, likes rice pudding, consults fortune tellers. Most of her pictures have been vapid dramas of high life, assigned to her because of her social background: Pleasure Mad, Broken Barriers, His Secretary...
Decorated. Kenesaw Mountain Landis, National Commissioner of Baseball; with the American Legion Distinguished Service Medal; in Chicago. General John Joseph Pershing and Admiral Robert Edward Coontz are the only other U. S. personages who have received the award...
Walter M. Simpson of Dayton, Ohio, reported on the number of cases of undulant fever and tularemia he had found in Ohio by watching for them. For his researches the American Society of Clinical Pathologists awarded him their first Ward Burdich Medal, in memory of Ward Burdich of Denver, founder of the Society in 1921, who died last year...