Word: medaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absurd charge, openly cartooned by such sheets as the KKKlannish Fellowship Forum (see cut), that he would "set up the Pope in the White House," earned for Al Smith a Catholic martyr's crown. Year after his defeat he received the University of Notre Dame's Laetare-Medal, an award seldom given a politician and the highest honor the Catholic Church in the U. S. can bestow upon a Catholic layman. At Castel Gandolfo last week arrived Al Smith, on the pilgrimage which every good Catholic hopes to make before he dies...
...delegation of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity presented Franklin Roosevelt with the Gottheil Medal "for distinguished service to Jewry...
...Washington's Corcoran Gallery last week the 15th Biennial Exhibition of U. S. painting closed. Out of more than 2,000 pictures submitted, the jury picked 461 pictures by 405 artists, from 28 States, distributed $5,000 in medals and prizes. Most of the best-known younger artists in the U. S. were represented. First prize ($2,000) went to Edward Hopper for one of his familiar old houses, painted in the sharp yellow light of a Cape Cod afternoon. Second prize ($1,500) and a silver medal went to Painter-Critic Guy Pène du Bois...
Much of his research has been on engineering problems connected with reinforced concrete. He is a member of the American Concrete Institute and was awarded the Watson medal of the Institute...
...second field extension of a laboratory to study locomotion which Dr. Schwartz has conducted in the University of Rochester Medical School since 1926. His studies of foot problems as old as Xenophon's forced inarch across Asia Minor are original enough to have earned him a gold medal from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and a bronze medal from the American Medical Association. And practical enough for a Rochester shoe manufacturer, Armstrong & Co.. to spend $150,000 on: 1) support of Dr. Schwartz's gait laboratory; 2) maintenance of an extension gait laboratory...