Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honors had already been heaped on Actor Harrison. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People gave him its Spingarn Medal as the outstanding Negro of 1930. Howard University made him a Master of Arts. From North Carolina State College of Agriculture & Engineering and Lincoln University he received Doctorates of Dramatic Literature. Boston University presented him its Sigma Key. He was asked to speak at Rotary Clubs, to colleges and congregations wherever the show went, and his most prized possession is the Bible from the Clergy Club of New York, with the names of all its members inscribed. Governors...
Recommended for a valor medal in Michigan was Corporal Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"),* tricky oldtime middle-weight prizefighter and barroom brawler. Two years ago fisticuffer McCoy finished a nine-year term in San Quentin Prison for drunkenly killing a sweetheart. Last August, when a boat capsized in a lake near Ann Arbor, he raced to the rescue in a motorboat. Grey, paunchy and 61, Kid McCoy fished five children from the water, dived deep for their parents until his nose spurted blood from the pressure...
...Germany), and a quota of 30 new members which, when recruited, will comprise an entire squad. Squadsters will be dropped if they attend less than two Mosleyite meetings per week. Those who attend five or more a week may wear, while they keep up that average, the medal denoting "Highest Zeal...
...curtain calls sent thrills down his spine. He has written nine operas and the only other one to be produced was a comic thing called The Farmerettes, put on by the Hollywood High School in 1933. On the great Metropolitan stage last week he was presented with a medal-from an American Opera Society in Chicago...
Albert Sauveur, whose skill in the field of metallurgy won him the Elliott Cresson gold medal in 1913 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, has resigned the Gorden McKay chair of Metallurgy and Metallography...