Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rocky slopes outside Seravezza in Italy, Private First Class Sadao S. Munemori, a Nisei and a member of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, was killed when he flung himself on a German hand grenade as it rolled toward two of his comrades. The President awarded him the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously. Last week, in a ceremony at the Brooklyn Army Base, the Army transport Wilson Victory was renamed the Private Sadao S. Munemori in his honor, and in honor of all Nisei who had died in the service of the U.S. Said his brother: "Sadao told my mother...
...bags for the trip. He could have included three bright new prizes*: 1) his first Alfred I. du Pont Award (for "aggressive, independent and meritorious" newsgathering); 2) his second Overseas Press Club Award (for the "best interpretation of foreign affairs by radio"); 3) his third National Headliners' Club medal (for his coverage of the British royal wedding...
...World War II veterans. In Chicago an ex-G.I. started a "Veterans Against MacArthur" club. Overnight it spread to almost every college campus and to more than a dozen large cities. In Boston, student veterans at Harvard, M.I.T. and Boston U. rallied around a slogan: "Give him a medal, but not the White House." The extreme criticism was matched by extreme praise in the Hearst press which had been beating the tom-toms and claimed the general as its "Man of the Hour" (TIME, March 15). In general, the U.S. press welcomed him to the stage...
...Ulster-Irish Society of New York awarded Eleanor Roosevelt its medal- restricted to Orangemen and their descendants* -"for notable service to the American nation...
...Postmaster General Frank C. Walker was named the outstanding Roman Catholic layman of 1948 by Notre Dame University, which pinned its Laetare Medal...