Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...typifies the service than the present Corps Commandant. A fighting Virginian, aged 59, he was graduated from Annapolis in 1890. He helped capture Guantanamo Bay in the Spanish War and relieve Peking in the Boxer Uprising. He served as a provincial military governor in the Philippines, won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the seizure of Vera Cruz. Through Belleau Wood he led the Fourth Marine Brigade to Soissons, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne, then on to the Rhine and Coblentz. After 39 years of almost continuous and always victorious fighting, General Neville, familiarly known as "Whispering Buck," still...
...three of these men are Freshmen, and Coach Ulen sees great possibilities in them for the future. Wood the most likely looking candidate, is at his best over the quarter-mile distance, but tonight he is out to win a medal in the 500-yard free style, and also in the 100-yard open free style. In the former event he will be pitted against William Squires of the Boston Swimming Association, whose unexpected showing outdoors during the past summer was the feature of the season. Squires captured the 440, 880, and mile outdoor senior championships, but recently...
Every tournament brings up some new player. The one at Hillcrest was a giant Californian, Fred Morrison, who made 15 threes during the 36-hole qualifying round and won the medal with 136, four better than Diegel. Before long he disappeared into the traps that medalists so often discover in a match play. Harry Cooper, who had been given a starting time, was ruled out because he had not played in the elimination tournament in his district. Tommy Armour, one-eyed Scot, was sick at home. Al Espinosa put out Bill Melhorn in a match that went 40 holes, then...
Professor G.W. Pierce '01 of the Harvard Engineering School, who was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Institute of Radio Engineers for 1929 for "Distinguished Services in Radio Communication", has been elected an honorary member of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
Awarded. To Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime (1925-28) Secretary of State; an honorary D.C.L. (Doctor of Civil Law) ; at Oxford University. Awarded. To Dr. Hugo Eckener, Commander of the Graf Zeppelin; the Ntional Geographic Society's gold medal. He said he would travel to the U. S. in March to get it. Elected. Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime (1928) Democratic Candidate for President; to be Board Chairman of County Trust Co. (Manhattan), a post created following the suicide of his longtime friend James J. Riordan (TIME, Nov. 18) Elected. Vice President George Willard Smith of New England Mutual Life Insurance...