Word: medals
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Full of modesty and the morale vitamin, Jeff comes home from the wars with a Congressional Medal of Honor, is boomed for the State Senate by his G.I. buddies, gives the "Oak Falls" machine its first lambasting in 20 years. After one slapdown in the Senate he finds his political legs, starts chasing political rats. First rat: the grafting director of a state insane asylum. Next on the fighting Senator's agenda: underpayment of teachers, black-market babies, maladministration of prisons...
...former editor of the CRIMSON, Reynolds, a month before his release from service in December, 1945, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his work under the Surgeon General in all phases of medical supply...
Last week, Congress also sent to the White House measures providing for: ¶ A special Medal of Honor award to aged (85) General of the Armies John J. Pershing (belatedly, for services in World War I, and for "gallant and unselfish devotion to ... the preparation for and prosecution of World War II"). ¶A standard 12.5% royalty on gas & oil leases on the public domain, instead of varying rates now negotiated-assailed by ex-Secretary Ickes as "further enrichment [of the oil companies] at the public expense...
...refusal to be silenced led to his court-martial in 1925 for "insubordination," got a token payment on the debt owed him by the U.S. The House finally got around to passing a bill-which the Senate had already sent down twice-authorizing the award of a special Congressional Medal of Honor...
When war came, he was commissioned a colonel, rose to brigadier general in the Army Service Forces. There he won the Distinguished Service Medal, was given much of the credit for buying textiles for the Army so skillfully that rationing of civilian clothing was averted. He got out of the Army shortly after Dick Mellon, 47, who had also served as a colonel and also won a D.S.M. Dick Mellon had some ideas about a new job for Denton and the vast Mellon interests...