Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society of Mayflower Descendants of the State of New York bestowed upon President Roosevelt its first annual gold medal for being the "most outstanding Mayflower descendant residing in New York in 1933." More famed for his Dutch ancestry, the President can claim Mayflower descent in 16 lines from no less than ten passengers: Richard Warren, Francis Cook, John Cook, Mr. & Mrs. John Tilley and Elizabeth Tilley, John Howland, Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Allerton and Mary Allerton...
...duty did not pass unnoticed by "Uncle George'' Cameron, who made a fortune in the cement business long before he inherited the Chronicle from his father-in-law in 1925. Last week he appeared at the Chronicle with 161 jewelers' boxes. Inside each little box was a small gold medal inscribed, within laurel...
...labor leader, New York organizer for the American Federation of Labor; after long illness; in Manhattan. A conservative, he achieved national importance as chairman of the Labor Division of the War Industries Board. His Wartime campaign for the reclamation of waste material (particularly foodstuffs) won him the Distinguished Service Medal...
...commander, waver and fall back under the enemy's fire. "With great gallantry and utmost disregard of personal danger" Major Richardson leaped forward, rallied the faltering company, led it through bursting shell to victory. Major Richardson received the Distinguished Service Cross, the French Legion of Honor, the Victory Medal and three clasps, the Croix de Guerre with two palms, the Montenegro Medal of Bravery, the Solidaridad of Panama. That helped to make up for the June afternoon on Trophy Point in 1904 when he, too, marched up to receive his class's last diploma...
Harriss came from Central High School, Omaha; will graduate summa cum laude in history; has been awarded the Washburn Prize, Greenleaf Scholarship, Carles Wyman Scholarship, Detur Award, and the Thomas Jefferson Coolidge Debating Medal. He was chagrin of Leverett House Committee...