Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italo Balbo at 23 came out of the War and the hardy Alpine corps with a bronze medal, two silver medals, a lisp and vaguely revolutionary ideas. The last he put into a newspaper called L'Alpino. Back in his native Ferrara where, as a schoolboy, he had organized and led farmworkers in fights against landowners. Balbo was among the first to enroll in the rising movement of Fascism. Enormously ambitious, popping with energy, he made such a good job of clubbing the opposition that he was put in charge of II Duce's own territory. When...
...Alfred Emanuel Smith. Via Veritas Medal...
Awarded. To Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, 46, vice president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. (builders of the Akron and Macon): the 1933 Daniel Guggenheim Medal for notable achievement in the advancement of aeronautics...
Whoever wrote this article deserves some sort of medal, honorable mention, or blue ribbon. It is unquestionably the best piece of this type of journalism I have seen in many and many...
...another college, Dr. Conant was made assistant professor six years after taking his A. B. In six years more he became a full professor. His most famed work has been in chlorophyll, the green stuff of life in plants. Last year Columbia University gave Dr. Conant its Chandler Medal, the American Chemical Society (New York section) its William H. Nichols Medal. Dr. Conant is rated a stern taskmaster -and admired for it-by his ablest students. Chemistry is his whole life. Yet he is no absent-minded professor: decade ago he leaped into the Charles River to save a would...