Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reach it than ever did Peary. The very fact that he has been handed the hot end of a poker ever since should induce you to be eminently fair in your investigations and statements in the future. The bald fact that the government of Denmark has never withdrawn its medal and degree given to Dr. Cook but has withdrawn, if I am not wrongly informed, its endorsements of Peary, is splendid proof that Dr. Cook has never been deemed an impostor by Denmark nor by many others in a position to know-not guess. Also, this class of competent judges...
...This is to inform you that the League of Yellow Journalists has elected you Honorary President stop please wire your acceptance stop the medal of the League for distinguished service in the past is on its way stop we know you will keep up your patriotic work in the future...
...Sept. 1, 1909 Dr. Cook, after some two years in the Arctic, announced that he had reached the North Pole. Promptly the Crown Prince of Denmark bestowed on him the medal of the Danish Geographical Society. British Journalist Philip Gibbs at once doubted Cook's story. On Sept. 6, Explorer Robert Edwin Peary, who had raced Dr. Cook to the Pole, said of his competitor: "He has simply handed the public a gold brick." Subsequently examining Dr. Cook's polar observations, a University of Copenhagen commission pronounced: "The documents . . . do not contain observation and information which...
President Jonas Lie won a gold medal for himself with a picture of Maine fishing boats in a rising mist entitled The Curtain Rises...
Awarded. To Always Faithful, U. S. Army Signal Corps carrier pigeon: a gold medal and certificate of honor by the American Racing Pigeon Union; for flying the 715 mi. from Chattanooga, Tenn. to Fort Monmouth, N. J. at an average speed of 47 m.p.h., beating 1,114 competitors...