Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starred with two firsts in the 100 and 200 yard free style events, with E. L. Goldwasser, B. Rogers, and C. N. Pollak also placing in more than one event. The Stevens diving cup was taken by G. W. Dana, while H. L. Rogers took the intramural diving first medal...
...Logan & Bryan, has served 50 years on the board of the Chicago Art Institute, because he is now its honorary president, the Art Institute honored him last week with an exhibition of some 20 paintings which have won the Institute's famed Mr. & Mrs. Frank G. Logan medal and prize. Since 1917, 230 awards have been made, $75,949 distributed in prize money. At the same time last week, less retiring Mrs. Frank Granger Logan published at her own expense her long awaited blast against "modernistic" painting in an elaborately illustrated book entitled Sanity...
...past 54 years, Laetare Sunday has annually given some publicity to a man or woman whom the University of Notre Dame considers an outstanding lay Catholic. The Laetare Medal, a gold disc bearing a rose and a device suggesting the recipient's vocation, has gone to such Catholics as Alfred Emanuel Smith, Actress Margaret Anglin, Tenor John McCormack, Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady, now Mrs. Macaulay. Last week, for its 1937 award, Notre Dame chose a Catholic pedagog: Dr. Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford, 63, chairman of the department of Romance Languages at Harvard University...
...Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Hines Page's secretary, a rich young athlete named Harold Fowler, resigned to go to War as a flyer. By the Armistice, Col. Harold Fowler had been wounded four times, shot down seven times, decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal. He celebrated by flying his plane under the Arc de Triomphe. Next time Harold Fowler popped into the news was in 1927 when he became the first U. S. citizen to ride in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. He was thrown twice. Next year he was thrown again. Other activities have been diplomacy...
Some 200 advertising men and women were present for the gold medal ceremony and for the long list of other advertising honors awarded this year by the trade-paper Advertising & Selling in continuance of the Harvard Awards founded in 1924 by the late Edward Bok. To Katharine Fisher, director of the Good Housekeeping Institute, and to Arthur Charles Nielsen, Chicago market researcher, went silver medals. Among agencies, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn won two firsts, one honorable mention, and B. B. D. & O.'s president, Roy S. Durstine, received first radio medal. Young & Rubicam scored one first, five honorable mentions...