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...President shortly afterward imposed his tenth veto on a bill to place a bronze tablet bearing a design of the Congressional Medal of Honor on the grave of Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap, U. S. M. C., in Arlington Cemetery. His objection: it established a precedent contrary to Cemetery rules and constituted a discrimination against other holders of the decoration buried at Arlington. ¶ The President signed a municipal bankruptcy bill by which bankrupt towns and cities may, with the consent of a Federal District Court and 75% of their creditors, compromise their debts to get back on their financial...
...birdie 4. On the sixth, he holed a 20-ft. putt for a birdie. On the 461-yd. 13th he just missed a putt for a 3. On the 14th, his second shot hit the flag-pin. At the 18th, he had a lead of 12 up and a medal score of 66, which was three strokes less than the course record. On the 23rd, Little had the match and the honor of having won the British Amateur without losing a single hole in the final round-14 up and 13 to play, the most one-sided score on record...
Last month the Harmon Trophy went to Wiley Post and the Daniel Guggenheim Gold Medal to William Edward Boeing. Last week the Collier Trophy- third in the trinity of aviation's outstanding awards-went to Frank Walker Caldwell for the "greatest achievement in aviation in America" during the past year. His achievement: the "controllable-pitch" propeller, which enables high-speed planes to take off quickly, climb rapidly, fly efficiently at high altitudes. Presentation of the trophy is made annually by the President of the U. S. Graduate of the University of Virginia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where...
Cyrus Leo Sulzberger '34, former President of the "Advocate," has captured the coveted Lloyd McKim Garrison Poetry Prize of $175 and a silver medal for his poem, "The Red Land," it was announced yesterday. The award was made to Sulzberger who comes from New York City after a faculty committee had judged the work of the many entries. Honorable mention was given to an athlete, James Parton '34, last year's cross-country captain, for "Hic Jacet Harvard...
Awarded. To President James Bryant Conant of Harvard: the American Institute of Chemists Medal. To Samuel Seabury, Mrs. August Belmont. Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon (Harvard Medical School): gold medals of the National Institute of Social Sciences. To Alden Hopkins of Rhode Island State College and Harvard School of Landscape Architecture : the Prix de Rome in landscape architecture...