Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correct that the first issue of the Congressional Medal of Honor was to the Andrew raiders, for service in April 1862 (TIME, Me 18). But Surgeon Bernard J. D. Irwin received one in January 1864 for a deed done in February 1861. Therefore, he was the first, as to date of action...
...National Defense Act of 1917 established a board to investigate previous awards of the Congressional Medal of Honor. The board disallowed all 864 medals promised those of the 27th Maine Volunteer Infantry who would re-enlist in 1863, but given even to those who went home. Also canceled were the 29 Medals bestowed in a moment of patriotic inadvertence on Lincoln's funeral escort. The board also rescinded Dr. Walker's award. No civilian has ever received the Medal legally. Charles Augustus Lindbergh rated one because he had belonged to the reserve air force long before his Paris...
...gravely accepted from President Roosevelt the $2 Medal (of Honor) which made him the 1,825th person in U. S. history to receive this No. 1 award" (TIME...
...Because the reports of New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews, who was attached to Badoglio's army, sounded sweet to Italian censors and because he had exhibited great bravery at the battle of Azbi last November, Marshal Badoglio last week pinned to his breast the Italian Medal for Valor. Wrote bemedaled Timesman Matthews from Diredawa last week before returning...
...other so little known even in his home city that, when Detroit newspapers got word of the Franklin awards, they could find no mention of him in their morgues. This was Albert Leroy Marsh, president of Detroit's Hoskins Manufacturing Co., who won the John Price Wetherill Medal "for discoveries or inventions in the physical sciences or for new and important combinations of principles or methods already known," as a result of work which had set him on the road to fortune, if not fame, 31 years ago. Mr. Marsh's profitable discovery was made...