Word: medaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Illinois during the War to join the Marines. At Belleau Wood he captured single-handed 27 Germans in a machine-gun nest, was later severely wounded, returned to the U. S. as a first lieutenant with the Distinguished Service Cross, the Croix de Guerre, the American Navy Medal. In 1926 he jumped from law school into State's Attorney Crowe's office as assistant prosecutor, curried favor among good Government groups by his fearless campaign against Chicago kidnappers, bombers, murderers. Despite the Democratic landslide in 1932, he made a good showing on the Republican ticket...
...real life, Lieutenant Rowan is now a 79-year-old retired colonel who lives quietly in California with nothing much more than a medal he received in 1922 to remind him of his feat. He may be surprised, in this screen play by Gene Fowler and W. P. Lipscomb, to learn his mission was to deliver a mysterious sealed letter; that he was aided by a swashbuckling ex-sergeant of Marines (Wallace Beery) and the lovely daughter (Barbara Stanwyck) of a Cuban patriot; that his principal antagonist was an international spy of in determinate nationality (Alan Hale); and that...
Leroy M. S. Miner, Dean of the Harvard Dental School and president-elect of the American Dental Association, was presented the Newell Sill Jenkins Medal of the Connecticut State Dental Association at the society's annual meeting held here tonight...
...medal was presented at the evening session after Dr. Miner had given a paper on "the Widening Opportunities for the Dentist in Oral Diagnosis." The medal was established in 1922 by Leonard A. Jenkins of New Haven, and is awarded each year to the person who, in the judgment of a committee appointed from the Connecticut State Dental Association, has made a notable contribution to Dentistry, Science or Humanity...
Professor Westergaard has done most of his research in the field of reenforced concrete. Besides being connected with Boulder Dam, he has worked on the construction of roads. He is a member of the American Concrete Institute, and was awarded the Watson Medal of the Institute...