Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost him his seat in 1916, but two years later impulsive Luke Lea was piling up an impressive War record in France as colonel of field artillery in the 30th ("Old Hickory") Division of Tennessee and Carolina boys. He fought in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, won a Distinguished Service Medal and in December 1918 led a party of hotheads into neutral Holland, in a fantastic but futile attempt to kidnap Kaiser William II for "a Christmas present for President Wilson...
...would follow suit. Because the British Dominions supply much of the raw materials on which Japanese industrial economy is dependent, they appeared none too eager last week to crimp their own exports. In Australia the Melbourne Argus (which last week won a University of Missouri School of Journalism honor medal, see p. 22) put it bluntly: "Australia has no complaint against Japan who is a good customer for her wheat and wool. Australia, as is natural from her geographical position, has found good markets in the Far East and unless international rivalries are pursued to the point of national suicide...
...famed. One is the Harmon Trophy, award of which fortnight ago made Wiley Post No. 1 airman of the year. Another is the Collier Trophy which annually rewards outstanding development in U. S. aeronautics. The third, and in some respects the most significant, is the Daniel Guggenheim Gold Medal which last week went to Board Chairman William Edward Boeing of potent United Aircraft & Transport Corp. First awarded in 1929 to Orville Wright, the Guggenheim Medal has gone each year to outstanding scientists in advanced aeronautical engineering. No aeronautical engineer is this year's winner, but a hard-headed industrialist...
...This week in Columbia, Mo., The Churchman's Editor Guy Emery Shipler was to receive the medal awarded annually to a newspaper or magazine by the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Citation: "For 130 years of highly intelligent and uncompromising editorial freedom and independence. . . . For a dynamic and powerful contribution to a modern liberal outlook for religion...
...pick the best novel, the best history and the best play (see p. 48), were overridden by the prize-awarding board. Only in the field of journalism did there seem to be a notable unanimity of choice. Yet no award was more astonishing than that of the $500 gold medal "for the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American Newspaper." Not the richest in cash value, this is the most coveted journalistic prize in the land. Its terms personify the traditions of the late, great Joseph Pulitzer. First won in 1918 by the New York Times...