Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week John H. Andrus, 50, of Camden, N. J., who has a Congressional Medal of Honor for letting the late Dr. Walter Reed infect him and 15 other soldiers with yellow fever in 1900 to prove that mosquitoes carry the disease, was admitted to Walter Reed Army Hospital at Washington. He is partially paralyzed...
...Biological Chemistry; Dr. M. F. Yates, instructor in Operative Dentistry; Dr. P. K. Losch, Instructor in Operative Dentistry; and the following students: H. B. Seyfarth '32, of Boston, C. T. Nelson '32, of Providence, Rhode Island; and T. W. Atwood '32, of Durham, North Carolina. The Harriet Newell Lowell Medal for Distinctive Work in Research was awarded to Dr. David Weisberger '30, now engaged in research work at the Yale Medical School, and to H. B. Seyfarth '32, president of the Society this year...
...Architect Dwight James Baum of New York President Hoover presented the Better Homes gold medal for designing the best small house in 1931. At Fieldston, N. Y., one Francis Collins lives in the prize Baum house...
Pilot Freeburg again made national news last week when he was awarded the Post Office Department's first Air Mail Flyer's Medal of Honor. It will be presented by President Hoover, but not for saving Bobby Jones's life. For that the Burlington gave Pilot Freeburg a gold watch, the Chicago Daily News $100. The medal was for a feat unique in the history of air transport. The St. Paul radio operator of Northwest Airways one afternoon last month pressed his headset hard against his ears to hear again a laconic message: "Freeburg speaking. Just broke...
Awarded. The Pulitzer Prizes for 1931; by the Trustees of Columbia University; as follows: Public Service: A $500 gold medal to the Indianapolis (Ind.) News, for its successful campaign to eliminate waste in city management and to reduce the tax levy. Correspondence: $500 to Walter Duranty of the New York Times for his articles on Russia; $500 to Charles G. Boss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for a discussion of the U. S. economic situation. Editorial: no award. Reporting: deferred. Cartoon: $500 to John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune for "A Wise Economist Asks a Question." Drama...