Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because he is "the person in our community who has rendered preeminent service to human welfare," President Conant was awarded the Ford Hall Forum gold medal at its annual banquet last evening. He was chosen because of his statement refusing the Hanfstaengl scholarship last year because of its donor's political affiliations...
...great honor to receive this award,--a particular honor to receive a medal from the Ford Hall Forum, an institution which for more than twenty years, has been in the words of Calvin Coolidge, 'a vital influence in Boston and a good example for other communities...
...House Musical Society will sponsor a concert by Julian DeGray, pianist on Sunday at 8 o'clock. Mr. DeGray, now on the faculty of Bennington College, was awarded the Cutting Travelling Fellowship at Columbia University in 1926; and in 1928, while studying in London, he received the Chappell Gold Medal. He has given concerts and lecture-recitals in music centers in this country and abroad, where he has been hailed with enthusiastic interest by critics and laymen alike...
Ever since the day in 1930 when his American Gothic won $300 and a bronze medal from the Chicago Art Institute, the name of Grant Wood has echoed persistently throughout the land. In five years, Artist Wood's picture of the bleak, bald Iowa farmer with the pitchfork and his daughter with the cameo and the printed apron has become almost as well known to the U. S. Public as Washington Crossing the Delaware. Yet not until last week did Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries succeed in borrowing American Gothic from the Art Institute of Chicago, Dinner for Threshers...
Died. Spike, 17, next-to-last surviving carrier pigeon to have served the A. E. F. during the War; of old age; at Fort Monmouth. N. J. The survivor, one-eyed, 18-year-old Mocker, holds the Distinguished Service Medal...