Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awarded. Thomas Alva Edison, irreligious inventor, a gold medal; by Pope Pius XI; for his "contribution to the world through invention," and particularly for giving His Holiness a gold & ivory Edison dictating machine...
...Author. Sir James Hopwood Jeans, 53, onetime (1905-09) professor of Applied Mathematics at Princeton, Research Associate of Mt. Wilson Observatory, sitter in many a mathematical chair, holder of many a scientific medal, has written numerous mathematical, astronomical treatises, one other book telling the plain man what science is up to: The Universe Around...
...Giving a replica of the Lindbergh Medal and a signed photograph of himself to young Hilary Lucke, schoolboy son of a Manhattan banker. The President's aides were pleased that Hilary, leaving the President's presence, exclaimed: "Dad, a fellow can even be a Democrat and like Mr. Hoover...
Awarded. To Cass Gilbert, Manhattan architect, by the Society of Arts & Sciences: its 1931 gold medal for architectural achievement; for designing the Woolworth Building (completed 1912), "contributing most conspicuously to the modern movement in architecture...
...films that will be shown in December are "The Art of Spinning and Weaving" and "The Medal Maker". The first was taken in the Colonial Rooms of the Museum and under the exact supervision of the Museum curators. The producers claim that it sets a new standard of authenticity both in colonial backgrounds and in picturization of the crafts of spinning and weaving. "The Medal Maker" was made especially for the American Numismatic Society and demonstrates the making of medals and coins as done by Laura Gardin Fraser, maker of the official government medals of Lindbergh and Byrd...