Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ricardo Alfaro had his credentials to present as the new Minister from Panama. A Hoover handshake was all Charles Hann Jr., U. S. vice president of the Federation of Interallied Veterans, wanted. The President also found time to step out on the South Grounds and receive the first platinum medal ever struck off by the Philadelphia mint-as honorary chairman of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission...
...midnight last week Dr. Gonzalo Vazquez Vela, newly elected Governor of Vera Cruz, was inaugurated amid the bursting of skyrockets. Thirty-six hours later Governor Vela signed his first decree. It created the rank of Favored Son of Vera Cruz, bestowed this rank and a medal (to be designed and struck as soon as possible) on "all citizens who heroically resisted the American invasion of Vera Cruz...
Awarded. Lorado Taft, sculptor, the annual gold medal of Manhattan's Holland Society for achievement in art; the Duchess of Talleyrand (onetime Anna Gould), the Cross of the French Legion of Honor; Joel Thompson Boone, President Hoover's physician, the Purple Heart medal (recently revived Revolutionary award for war service) and the Silver Star medal; Radiologist Leon Menville, the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America for applying Roentgen ray examination to the lymphatic system in cancer work; Nobel Prizeman Prince Louis de Broglie, the 100,000-franc ($3,900) Prince of Monaco grand prix...
...meeting of the Society of Arts and Sciences in New York last night Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, was awarded the Society's gold medal for distinction in science. After the dinner Shapley made an acceptance speech in which he dealt with some of the many questions in cosmogony that are now puzzling scientists...
...William Crocker of the Boyce Thompson institute was awarded the medal at the same time. This award is given for special merit in the field of science and Invention and such eminent scientists as Thomas A. Edison, Robert Andrews Millikan, Albert A. Michelson, James McKeen Catell, and Gilbert N. Lewis have won the prize...