Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after it closed. But last week's sentence marked the complete deflation of a great southern hero, one who had attempted to build an empire on the pillars of politics, finance and the Press, who was once the youngest U. S. Senator (32), who was given the Distinguished Service Medal for his courageous actions at the front...
Died. Dr. Aristides Agramonte, 62, medical researcher; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. In 1929 he received a Congressional Medal of Honor for work with the Gorgas-Finlay yellow fever commission in 1901. He was president of the Pan-American Medical Association, recently made head of the department of tropical diseases of the Louisiana State University Medical School...
...82nd annual meeting of the American Chemical Society approached next week (at Buffalo), Professor Pauling's career and accomplishments were objects of many secret discussions. U.S. Chemistry has had two great rewards for its doers: the William H. Nichols Medal and the Josiah Willard Gibbs Medal...
This year Jacob Fred Schoellkopf, Buffalo power and dye tycoon, contributed a gold medal, named for his late father, to honor important industrial research. First Schoellkopf medalist, named last week, is President Frank Jerome Tone, 63, of Carborundum Co., who helped develop that and other synthetic abrasives, who originated the first commercial process for producing silicon metal (used in electrical transformers, alloys, hydrogen manufacture), who possesses "to an unusual degree the rare combination of the qualities of the pure scientist, the plant engineer, and the successful business administrator." Graduates of Hill School and Cornell of six or seven years...
...truck whose cargo of hogs he was appraising. Aware that they had been riding in an enclosed cab, Buyer Archer guessed they had carbon monoxide poisoning, applied prone pressure (artificial respiration), revived both men in a half hour. The National Safety Council pinned its President's Medal upon Jimmy Archer...