Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, as a Prince came of age in Rumania amid pomp and medal-pinning, an idea came of age in Germany-in that part of Germany which was once Czecho-Slovakia-amid the deepest sadness. The occasion was the 21st anniversary of the establishment of the CzechoSlovak Republic, 21st birthday of the idea of national self-determination, freedom for the little, liberty for the helpless. The sadness was the more poignant because no trace of liberty could be found in the celebrations...
...award: the Vermilye Medal, named for Donor William Moorhead Vermilye, vice president of Manhattan's National City Bank. The first recipient: Lewis Herold Brown, handsome (see cut) young (45) president of big Johns-Manville Corp. (building materials, etc.). Until the presentation ceremony two weeks hence, the Institute will not reveal its bill of particulars in favor of Mr. Brown. It hardly needs to then...
...Frankenstein of anti-German feeling that will destroy its efforts to keep us out of war. The time has come for a sharp change of front. If the old accusation, "Pro-German!" is heard, it will be well to remember that Americans and Germans alike will have a medal ready for the man who can keep us out of this...
...August the U. S. abrogated the 1911 Trade Treaty with Japan. And after Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell retired from command of the China fleet and came home in August to get from Franklin Roosevelt a Distinguished Service Medal for keeping the Japanese in line so far as U. S. nationals were concerned, he kept the fireball rolling. "If the Japanese plans succeed," the Admiral warned, "I doubt very much whether there will be any business for Americans in China." The Ambassador's slap, which was no less stinging for being deft, not only reminded the Japanese that they...
...Cyril is the only British high-ranking officer today who has the Albert Medal 1st Class, usually associated with peacetime heroism. One day in 1916 fire broke out in an R.F.C. bomb store containing 2,000 high-explosive bombs. The key could not be found. Cyril Newall and a mechanic climbed on the roof and played a hose through a hole burned by the flames. Newall then led three others into the building, and together they put out the fire...