Word: medaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Palache Receives Medal...
...Washington, at the annual meeting of the Mineralogical Society of America, honors came to Charles Palache, professor of Geology and retiring president of the society, who was awarded the Roebling medal for "meritiorious achievement in mineralogy and allied sciences...
...anyone who sent him $1, Father Cox mailed a "St. Christopher Miraculous Medal" and a blank on which to suggest three names for the garden of St. Patrick's Church. The priest hired a promoter, one B. J. Clifford of Cleveland, and 25,000 people entered the contest. Said the Christian Century, best-edited U. S. Protestant weekly: "Not even a 'miraculous medal' can perform the miracle of transforming this sort of traffic into anything other than a disgrace to the church...
...even a miraculous medal, it appeared last week, could make Father Cox's contest look right to the U. S. Post Office Department. Day before the "Garden Stakes" was to close, Father Cox was arrested on charges of Pittsburgh's U. S. Attorney, released on $3,000 bond. He was accused of 1) using the mails to defraud; 2) conducting a lottery. Angry, red-faced Father Cox protested that he had talked with Postmaster General Farley before starting his contest, had been told to go ahead. Cried he: "They'll have to call out the troops first...
Fortnight ago Poet Auden, escorted by Poet Laureate John Masefield, was presented to King George VI, to receive The King's Gold Medal. This award to young poets, instituted three years ago by George V, first given to conservative, conventional Poet Laurence Whistler, was withheld last year...