Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Name: Cynthia. Divorced. "Prince" David Mdivani, eldest of Russia's famed "Marrying Mdivanis"; by Mae Murray, onetime cinemactress; in Los Angeles. Grounds: extreme cruelty, unreasonable jealousy, hos tility toward her guests. Awarded. To Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (John Brown's Body) : the Roosevelt Medal "for distinguished service." To the late John Ripley Freeman (died Oct. 6) : the John Fritz Medal (No. 1 U. S. engineering award), for his pre-eminence "in the fields of hydraulics and water supply, fire insurance economics and analysis of earthquake effects." Sued. Harold Fowler McCormick, 61, chairman of the finance committee of International...
...Washington used another word then, but the conflict of individual and national interests is substantially the same in either case. Governor Murray is a constitutional lawyer of great ability and vision. He realizes that the proud boast of James M. Beck that we have no administrative law is a medal with two sides, and that it would be quite as reasonable for us to boast, with the Tartars of old, that we have no civil law. It is true that we have no sanctioned and unified administrative law; it is a tribute to the Governor's realism that he sees...
...Chapman, Kansas farm boy, bought a piglet, named him Pete, raised him to pighood, gave his profit to Leper missions. Last week Mr. Chapman, now a St. Paul electrical engineer, visited Manhattan to permit a firm-willed patrician from Richmond, Va., Mrs. Robert Randolph Harrison, to pin a silver medal on him for his boyhood initiative. Mrs. Harrison during the ceremony wore a little gold pig on a brooch over her heart; she is the "Honorable First Pig Lady in America," for ingeniously transforming Mr. Chapman's pig-fund idea. Like 80,000 others who learned from...
...George Washington Crile were two others who boldly digressed from the strict business of surgery. Mayo on War. Dr. Mayo, who alternated with his elder brother Dr. William James Mayo as chief surgical consultant to the U. S. Army Medical Department during the War, who won the Distinguished Service Medal and is a brigadier general in the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps, was thinking last week that war again was imminent over Europe Cried he, speaking before the Chicago Association of Commerce: "The speed of the world has increased so fast that a lot of people can't keep...
...Chicago went Andre de Laboulaye, French Ambassador to the U. S., to confer the cross of the Legion of Honor upon President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University, in recognition of his Wartime personnel work (for which he also received a Distinguished Service Medal). This year Northwestern and the University of Chicago are to "cooperate" by exchanging facilities, with the expressed hope of making Chicago "the greatest university centre in the U. S." Last week both were joined with seven other Chicago institutions in offering help to 3,600 one-time students of the city's Crane Junior College...