Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santo Domingo, drove the U. S. S. Memphis, 14,500-ton cruiser anchored in the harbor, up on the rocks where she remains to this day. Live steam from broken pipes made below-decks an inferno. Last week at the White House President Hoover conferred the Navy's Medal of Honor upon Commander Claud Ashton Jones, the Memphis' senior engineer, for his heroism 16 years ago in evacuating the injured from her engine room...
...Brown is a boy whose doctor father was given the Congressional Medal of Honor, reported dead. Tom is fighting in a boxing club's preliminaries when he is found by an officer of the American Legion which subsequently sends him to Culver in memory of his father. To Tom's friend Slim Summerville presently comes Tom's long-lost father (H. B. Warner). Shellshocked, he had deserted after exchanging identification tags with an arm he found on the battlefield. Slim brings father & son together, incognito. The father is about to kill himself, after seeing Tom at Culver. Tom saves...
...Company Sergeant Major C. F. H. Bayly, 58, English marksman of the 4th Volunteer Battalion of the West Kent Regiment: the famed King's Prize ($1,250), a gold medal and a gold badge in the National Rifle Association's meeting at Bisley Camp, England; with 289 out of a possible 300, second highest score on record. Desmond Burke of Canada, King's Prizewinner in 1924, won the Challenge Trophy, $50, and the Rifle Association's Grand Cross for an aggregate...
Commander Edward Ellsberg, U. S. Naval Reserve, whose work in raising the S-4 and S-51 won him the Distinguished Service Medal (TIME, Sept. 9, 1929) said at Westfield...
...William H. Long of Somerville, N. J. sat in their home, contem plating the rock garden which had won a silver medal in a garden contest last year, and which they hoped would win a gold medal this year. Suddenly an automobile bounded from the road, crossed the curb, plunged into the garden, ripped through vines and hedges, plowed up flower beds, gouged an eight-foot gash in the side of the house, tore away the ivy that had been trained up the wall since 1914, uprooted a four-ton stepping stone, piled up against a maple tree...