Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many another has done under similar circumstances and write to the Hero Fund Commission, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. The Commission will acknowledge your let ter, ask your references, investigate the fiery rescue and, unless it is an unusual year for heroism, your hero is likely to receive a Carnegie Medal, the only award of its kind in the U. S. made by an organization other than a club or the Government...
Last week, the Commission recognized 24 acts of heroism. Some dated back as far as 1924. One Hugh O. Smith obtained nationwide mention for the hamlet of Stronghurst, in western Illinois, by receiving the one silver medal awarded. Four years ago, Hugh O. Smith rescued three boys from a burning house...
Negaunee, Mich.; Emporia, Kan.; Pal myra, N. Y. ; Houston, Ark.; Commerce, Mo.; Pewee Valley, Ky. ; Waxahachie and Jacksonville, Tex.; Belfast, Me.; Oelwein, Iowa; Virginia Beach, Va., were other places whence the new Carnegie heroes hailed. Besides Hero Smith's silver medal, 23 bronze medals were awarded, ten of them posthumously, for rescue or attempts at rescue from drowning, burning and onrushing trains. Hero Bert V. McMinn of Jacksonville, Tex., extracted his man from a caved-in well...
...made to make it a major event. Mayor George E. Leach was to attend. Composer Bimboni, turned conductor, was working with his orchestra, when word arrived that the American Opera Society of Chicago, of which Edith Rockefeller McCormick is ardent honorary president, had voted him the David Bispham Memorial Medal for distinguished service in the furtherance of American music, that he would be awarded it this week at the Minneapolis performance...
...Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded a prize for debating in the form of a medal, which was specially struck and designed for the occasion...