Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zarza of the Cuban Republic. The speech said that Major Rowan had performed a feat that was "an everlasting lesson" which "covered your army with glory," a deed for all to "love, admire and emulate." At the end of it, Consul Zarza pinned a blue-ribboned gold medal upon Major Rowan. It was the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuba's highest honor.* The old soldier, suffering from age's infirmities and a rib broken last April, received his reward in silence...
Accustomed to playing against the Scoreboard in their year-round circuit of medal-play tournaments, many an able pro succumbs to fluttering nerves in a man-to-man contest. But to most U. S. pros there is a hobgoblin even more terrifying: a wispy, 135-lb. colleague affectionately known as "Little Poison...
...Bell Telephone Laboratories, has succeeded in synthesizing the curative substance, which is now called vitamin B2.* Upon advice of the American Medical Association, he re-named the vitamin thiamin because it contains sulfur (Greek theion). The American Chemical Society this spring awarded Dr. Williams its Willard Gibbs (highest) Medal. Science has just published a detailed article by him. "The Chemistry and Biological Significance of Thiamin." And next week Macmillan's will publish Vitamin B1 and its Use in Medicine ($5), which he wrote with Dr. Tom Douglas Spies of Cincinnati, a medical vitamin specialist. Dr. Williams, still zealous...
Hero. In spite of their preoccupation with strictly professional problems, the delegates paused this year for the first time to salute a colleague for high general medical achievement. To Surgeon Rudolph Matas of New Orleans went their first annual Distinguished Service Medal, given for "meritorious service in the science and art of medicine." Stout, little Dr. Matas, 1895-1927 Tulane professor of surgery, was one of the world's first doctors to use local anesthetics. He invented a splint for broken jaws and aluminum binders for bulging arteries. He discovered safe ways of operating in cavities of the chest...
...Mate Mons Monssen of the battleship Missouri* crawled into the magazine after an explosion had already killed 29 men and injured five, and with bare hands beat out a fire which would have killed 600 more had it reached the powder room. Mate Monssen got a Congressional Medal. In 1925 he retired, a lieutenant. In 1930 he died. This spring the Navy Department notified Hero Monssen's widow that one of its new destroyers will be christened U.S.S. Monssen...