Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of Commerce Lament will spend his vacation this month on the Colorado ranch of his son Robert, who lost a hand in the War, was decorated with the French Military Medal at Soissons...
...John Lehman of Chicago, after tying, later defeating, Chick Evans for the qualifying medal and after putting out last year's champion Don Moe: the Western Amateur Golf championship at the Beverly Country Club, Chicago...
...Tomas Cobos, 29, dairyman, was drowning in the reservoir near El Pardo palace. Twoscore other swimmers stood about gibbering. In plunged Matador Franklin, fished out Tomas Cobos, revived him by artificial respiration. Dairyman Cobos prepared a petition to the Government, asking the Cruz de Beneficencia (Spain's Carnegie medal) for Matador Franklin...
Awarded. To Col. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, autoracer, War ace (26 enemy planes), holder of the Distinguished Service Cross (with nine palms), Cross of the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre (with four palms): after twelve years, the Congressional Medal of Honor...
Thomas Alva Edison at his home in West Orange, N. J. was the recipient of the Rotary International Service Medal "in appreciation of a life of service to science, the arts, and humanity." While newsmen, photographers, waited after the ceremony he told a story: a man who suffered from a liver complaint went to Los Angeles for cure, recovered, started a sanitarium of his own. "Eighteen years afterward, the man died," declared Inventor Edison, "but before they could bury him his liver had got so strong they had to kill it with a club...