Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long-time golf partner of John Davison Rockefeller; of old age; in Ormond Beach, Fla. He entered the Civil War a lieutenant, was a 29-year-old major general when it ended. For heroism in the first Battle of Bull Run he got, 32 years later, a Congressional Medal of Honor. Appointed Provisional Governor of Mississippi in 1868, he was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1869, elected Governor in 1873. Reconstruction strife forced him, last Northern Governor of a Southern State, to resign three years later in the face of impeachment proceedings...
...with seven Koals in the last period, against Army in the final; in Manhattan. C George Terry Dunlap Jr., onetime intercollegiate golf champion (Princeton) : the North & South amateur championship for the second year; 7 & 5 against Jack Toomer of Jacksonville in the final; after taking the medal with 65-72-137 and tying the course record with a 64 in the quarterfinals; at Pinehurst, N. C. C Haligonian, 45-ft. schooner owned and sailed by Houston Wall of Tampa, Fla.: the fourth annual St. Petersburg-to-Havana race, for the President Machado...
...include only men of satisfactory scholastic standing, in preparation for rowing against Yale. The winner of a race to be held Tuesday, May 9 will meet the best Yale class crew on Saturday, May 20. For the men who remain on the House crews after the Yale race, a medal event will be included in the ensuing Spring Regatta...
...Nicholas Murray Butler, Henry Morgenthau). Alfred Emanuel Smith, Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman and Dr. Alexander Lyons would be speakers representing the three faiths. Tenor John McCormack, who sang at Dublin's Eucharistic Congress last year and who last week was awarded Notre Dame's prized Laetare Medal (annual, for distinguished Roman Catholic laymen), would sing Cesar Franck's Panis Angelicas. And President Roosevelt would speak, perhaps in person, surely by radio...
Awarded. To tenor John McCormack; the Laetare Medal, Notre Dame University's annual award to a Catholic layman. To Dr. Frank Harold Spedding, 30, of the University of California: the Langmuir $1,000 award for promising young chemists; for discerning the arrangement and behavior of atoms in solids...