Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Medal of Honor of the U.S. is frequently compared to the V.C. but the basis of award is quite different, the former being given in times of peace, and it is thus not strictly a war decoration...
Sirs: ... As a matter of fact, the Distinguished Service Order is generally rated as lower than the Military Cross, which is the officer's decoration corresponding to the Military Medal for other ranks. The D.S.O. fell into disrepute during the late War-as indeed what decoration except the V.C. did not?-for it was issued to field commanders like confetti at a carnival, fr>r successes earned by N.C.O.'s and gloriously anonymous privates of the P.B.I. (Poor Bloody Infantry). The common procedure for incompetent colonels was to give them a D.S.O. and send them back to England...
...been poking around in the Arctic since he was 19. He sailed with the bicentenary jubilee "North-Around-Greenland" expedition (1920-23), later commanded three government geological surveys to East Greenland, the last in 1930. For that year the American Geographical Society awarded him its Charles P. Daly gold medal...
...other members of their foursome, 3s. Blue Mound is still only 6,270 yd. long, shorter than most championship links. In the qualifying rounds, an obscure Timber Point (L. I.) professional named Jimmy Hines, and Mortie Dutra, hulking brother of the hulking defending champion, tied for the medal with 138. Par 70 was broken or tied 16 times and the 31 out of 97 starters who qualified needed 146 or better. In the first round, Leo Diegel lost to a long-driving young Western pro named Willie Goggin, who tied for seventh in the U. S. Open last spring...
Awarded. To Dr. William Francis Beer, Salt Lake City surgeon who performed 300 successful operations on interned Germans during the War: the German Red Cross Medal, first decoration conferred by Germany upon a U. S. citizen for wartime services; by President von Hindenburg...