Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relinquished an honorary Legion membership, Louis Arthur Johnson, the Legion's new national commander, denied the Legion had any honorary members, called the Admiral's resignation "a publicity stunt." Admiral Sims retorted that he was made an honorary member at the Boston convention in 1931, had a medal to prove...
When the tougher grind of match play began the next day, the younger golfers suffered retribution for their medal performances. Ouimet, playing like an auto-matic stoker, put out George Voigt 6 & 5. Voigt was one under par for the first nine holes - and 4 down. Ouimet had played the nine in 30. A young Yale player, Sidney W. Noyes, pressed Ouimet in the afternoon but was put out 1 down...
...Professional Golfers' Association championship, hardest match-play tournament in the world to win, for which British & U. S. Open Champion Gene Sarazen failed to qualify three weeks ago. Ponderous Olin Dutra who looks like Jack Dempsey and handles his putter like an elephant with a teaspoon, won the medal with 140. His brother Mortie, Johnny Farrell, Mike Turnesa, Abe Espinosa, Walter Kozak, Tommy Armour and last year's Open champion, Billy Burke, were all over the play-off score?153. The first round was memorable for two tremendous matches which passed the record set when Chick Evans...
Senior Kudos. To Dr. Charles Lathrop Parsons, 65, went the American Chemical Society's senior kudos, the Priestley Medal. He has been the Society's secretary for 25 years, its business manager since last year. His work in pure chemistry flowered 30 years ago when he was busily exposing the properties of beryllium. As chief chemist of the Bureau of Mines he was a leader in the chemical prosecution of the War. Since 1919 he has practiced in Washington as a consultant chemist...
...Academic, Grant Wood worked for 15 years under the influence of various French schools. Several years ago, returning from Munich to Cedar Rapids, remembering German primitives, he suddenly saw Iowa and lowans as hard, rich primitives. At once his painting crystallized. In 1930 he won $300 and the bronze medal of the Art Institute of Chicago. He remembered U. S. primitives-Currier & Ives prints and old furniture catalogs. lowans bought his new pictures with as much pleasure as conscience. He painted The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover at West Branch. Of his famed American Gothic, portraits of a Mid-Western farmer...