Word: medaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Either there is a dark horse heading for the Berlin 400-metre gold medal, or evening dress has extraordinary effect on a runner's capabilities, or someone is fudging...
...committees which hand out the jobs of making America's monuments. Big assignments for sculpture come to U. S. artists by direct commission, through open competition or through competitions limited by invitation. Last week a handsome plum fell to Mrs. Laura Gardin Fraser, Manhattan sculptor famed for her medal designs, when her model won in a limited competition for a $100,000 Baltimore bronze of Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson. Still groggy from a sinus operation, Mrs. Fraser was cheered by her success, knew she had a good two years' work ahead...
Accepting a medal inscribed "Dick Byrd, Gallant Gentleman" from Colonel Henry Breckinridge, Rear Admiral Rich ard Evelyn Byrd told 600 banqueters in Manhattan his future plans. Recalling the six months when he "lay on the edge of life" alone in Antarctic Advance Base, the greying explorer read from the diary he kept there: " 'From here the great folly of all follies is the amazing attitude of civilized nations toward each other. . . . If this attitude is not changed, I don't see how our civilization, as we know it, will survive. ... I feel this so keenly that...
Legitimately 2,597 of the awards have been made. During the War, the Navy provided a $35 gold medal for naval winners of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Standard gold star and blue brocade for the Army Medal costs $2, for the Navy (bronze star) $2.85.-ED. Sirs...
Neither politics nor favoritism appears to have figured in the cases of four other U. S. sailors or marines, four U. S. soldiers who have equalled General Butler's feat of twice winning the Congressional Medal of Honor.-ED. Hoolidge -? Sirs...