Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judging his 1937 Pulitzer Prizewinner, The Flowering of New England, "the most likely to become a classic" of all books published in the last three years, the Limited Editions Club presented eminent Critic Van Wyck (rhymes with "bike") Brooks with a gold medal...
...delegation of 200 Brazilian seamen. The man they cheered for was Good Neighbor Wyly. The delegation escorted him to a flag-draped automobile, sped him to the hospital to receive the thanks of the recuperating stevedore, then took him back to his ship. There they gave him a gold medal; a twelve-inch gold filigree model of the windjammer Saldanha da Gama, $25 in cash and an offer of a life job long shore...
...Hugo Black, only living man to have belonged to both the Ku Klux Klan and the U. S. Supreme Court, got a Thomas Jefferson medal from the Conference for being "the Southerner who has done most to promote human welfare...
...Iowa-born Karl Frederick Geiser, a retired Oberlin College professor whose highest previous honor was a teaching fellowship in Germany during 1936-37. Author of a work called Democracy versus Autocracy (1918) and of a translation of Sombart's Deutscher Sozialismus (1937), Professor Geiser wanted to keep his medal (first-class German Eagle), did his best to make a case for it. Said he: "I have consistently attempted to maintain the historical attitude of understanding and interpreting Germany. . . . Assuming that my citation by the present German Government is a recognition and appreciation of my efforts in behalf of justice...
Justice Hugo L. Black (Wed. 9 p. m., NBC-Blue) accepts the Thomas Jefferson medal awarded him by the Southern Conference for Human Welfare at Birmingham...