Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan Rotary club, War Ace Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was introduced as a winner of the Distinguished Service Cross with nine palms, the Croix de Guerre with four palms, the Congressional Medal of Honor, the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Snorted Ace Rickenbacker: "It is true that I could come here with a chest full of medals. But I do not wear the ribbons. ... I have no respect for decorations of that kind. I respect only the awards for peacetime service...
Last week the hero of that worst Arctic tragedy in U. S. history was informed that Congress had voted him its Medal of Honor. Thus to Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, a week before his gist birthday, went the recognition for which he had vainly waited half a century. Lieut. Greely returned from the Arctic to find a civilian upped to the captaincy which he had expected. Quietly plugging ahead, he distinguished himself by laying thousands of miles of telegraph and cable wire in the Philippines, China, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Alaska, directing Army relief work in San Francisco after...
...Anoint yourself with oil and apply the medal of St. Joseph. Make a novena to St. Joseph and persevere in prayers...
...Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. The Prefecture of Police covered it up with an awning and attached a large bronze fig leaf. Infuriated students rioted in the cemetery, led a parade down the boulevards to the Café Royale. The leader wore the fig leaf like a medal around his neck...
...Dean Smith will go the King Albert Memorial Medal designed by dark, handsome "Princess" Roussadara Mdivani, wife of Painter José Maria Sert...