Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spend less than $1,000,000,000 for the same purposes. ¶ On June 3, 1898 Richmond Pearson Hobson won the nation's applause by sinking the Merrimac to bottle up the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. Last week President Roosevelt pinned a Congressional Medal of Honor on the Hobson breast for that feat. Mr. Hobson is nowadays a famed anti-narcotics crusader (TIME, March 2, 1931). ¶ Long and loyal service was rewarded last week when President Roosevelt appointed Robert Hayes Gore of Florida to be Governor of Puerto Rico. Loudly had Publisher Gore...
...York World but its rebirth." Last week Scripps-Howard could point with pride to evidence of its sincerity. The World-Telegram was awarded the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for "the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper during the year." The public service prize (gold medal costing $500) was won not by a single exploit but by a medley of campaigns pushed by the World-Telegram last year: an exposé of discreditable phases of veterans' relief by Reporter Talcott Powell; a series on the real estate bond racket by Reporters Joseph Lilly & Fred Woltman...
...must work two days a week. Simple, combining hand with mind, are the Berry courses-liberal arts, science, commerce, mechanics, agriculture. There are nearly 10,000 alumni. White-haired and maternal at 66, Miss Berry has been given the $5,000 Pictorial Review Achievement Award, the Roosevelt Memorial Association Medal, the Town Hall Club Medal. Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Edison have long been friends of Miss Berry and benefactors of her schools, but last week's Pilgrimage was their first visit. Said Mrs. Edison: "My wish is that Mr. Edison might have. . . ." Said Mrs. Roosevelt: ''I shall...
...occasionally went down himself, has told in his On the Bottom the story of the months of perseverance, courage and mechanical in genuity by which the expedition succeeded. Captain King did his administration job so well that the Navy gave him, as well as Commander Ellsberg, a Distinguished Service Medal. When the S-4 sank off Provincetown in 1927 he again led a successful salvaging expedition, got an other D. S. M., this time with a gold star...
...course in Design has been revised to amalgamate the aesthetic design, the construction and the function of building for the treatment of special problems. In the field Harvard has twice won the French government medal...