Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vienna, Doktor Michael Hainisch, President of the Austrian Republic, recently presented a gold medal of the newly established Order of the Austrian Republic to the head of the local Chamber of Commerce...
Last week he sent Minister of Commerce, Doktor Hans Schuerff, out to Graz, second largest city of Austria, to bestow a silver medal of the same order upon the head of its Chamber of Commerce...
...seven prizes to be awarded the competitors are as follows: a gold medal to the individual or organization best meriting recognition for distinguished contemporary services to advertising; two prizes of two thousand dollars each;--one for a national campaign, the other for a local campaign; two thousand dollars for the advertising research of the year judged most conspicuous either for securing economy or efficiency in advertising, or for reducing or precluding unwise expenditure in a specific advertising program; three prizes of one thousand dollars each,--for the advertisement most effective in text, that most effective in use of pictorial illustration...
...Colonel Winship could bear delay with equanimity, Major General Robert Lee Howze, president of the Court could not. He is a disciplinarian of the first water. Way back in '91 he got the Congressional Medal of Honor for licking a crowd of Sioux in South Dakota. This week he proceeded to rake the counsel over the coals. The Trial Judge Advocates explained that they had not known until the day before what witnesses the defense wished to call...
...that of the battlefield. Facing the probable indignation of the public and the inevitable wrath of one's superiors requires firmer mettle than does the facing of cannons. Instead of being dishonorably discharged from the army, as it is threatened he will be, Colonel Mitchell should be awarded a medal for distinguished service...