Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America First was not in a happy spot. In the unhappiest spot of all was elderly, vehement Robert Elkington Wood, Brigadier General of the U.S. Army (retired), holder of the Distinguished Service Medal, Companion of the British Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight of the French Legion of Honor, Chairman of the Board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., boss of America First...
...railroads get through this winter, they will merit a medal for operating ingenuity. They will not get one for foresight in ordering new cars...
...medal round Miss Amory shot 76, low score of the day. But after the first round of match play, she was on the sidelines. So was Mrs. Holleran and Defending Champion Betty Jameson, generally considered the ablest of America's golfing sorority, who was put out by a bespectacled upstart named Janet Younker. Two or three rounds later they were joined by Mrs. Leichner, by six-time Champion Glenna Collett Vare, by twice runner-up Maureen Orcutt, by other pre-tournament favorites. By that time the gallery turned its toes toward Betty Hicks Newell, a pint-sized 20-year...
...Verger Stanley Thompson, 60, of Church of St. Dunstan-in-the was awarded the British Empire Medal last week. Verger Thompson did not know much about putting out incendiary bombs, but he did the best he could...
...station commander of the U.S. naval air station, worked with Lieut. Bob Lovett. In Flanders the baby of the outfit, David Sinton Ingalls, Yale '20, became the Navy's No. 1 Ace, in six blazing weeks won the British Distinguished Flying Cross, the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal. To death in battle with eight German fighters flew another Yale Unit man, Kenneth MacLeish (since memorialized in verse by his elder brother, Poet Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, and immortalized when the Navy's Destroyer No. 220 was named MacLeish...