Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gimlet Eye") Butler, U. S. M. C., has been on the alert for international slights. Last week he thought he had found one. He thought he had caught Dantes Bellegarde, the Haitian Minister in Washington, saying that the Haitian fort for capturing which he (Butler) won the Congressional Medal of Honor, was a fictitious fort. Wrathfully General Butler appealed to the Navy Department to have this ugly blot wiped from his record...
...speaks poor English, was reported as follows: "We in Haiti have always wondered about that. For there is no Fort Riviere. There never was. We have looked all over our island and there is no such thing. However, for taking Fort Riviere he [General Butler] got the Congressional Medal . . . fighting Marine...
...class. He will go into his father's ice business. He has not carried ice, as footballer Red Grange used to, to keep training. Instead, he goes to the woods, fishes for trout, hunts deer and bear. When he was small his mother received a Carnegie Medal for saving the life of a hunter bitten by a rattlesnake in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. One-mile Relay, The Penn team (Carr, Edwards, Steele, Healey) whirled away from all rivals, equaled in the muscle-stiffening air the 3 min. 18 sec. record made by Ted Meredith's team...
Honored. Frank Gillmore, president of the Actors' Equity Association; with the annual gold medal of the American Arbitration Association "for distinguished service in the establishment of commercial peace through arbitration"; in Manhattan. Previous medalists: Steelman Charles M. Schwab, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry F. Guggenheim, Manhattan Realtor Frederick Brown, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd...
When the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia last week presented its Leidy Medal to Dr. William Morton Wheeler, internationally famed zoologist, longtime Dean of the Bussey Institution for Research in Applied Biology at Harvard, he replied with a lecture on the subject in which he had been doing medal-worthy work: ants and their queens. Some of his more curious ant facts...