Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winner of the Distinguished Service Medal, Reynolds was discharged from the Army last December...
...reporters and the ex-Ambassador arose. The Secretary opened the case, took out a decoration-the Medal for Merit-and pinned it on Harriman's coat...
Said Jimmy Byrnes: "For exceptionally distinguished conduct. . . in a position of great responsibility. . . ." A little self consciously Harriman thanked him. He unpinned the medal after Byrnes left, laid it down. He answered questions as politely and cautiously as ever. But when the newsmen filed out he stared curiously at the bright red ribbon...
...total of 1,652 was good enough to earn the first cash prize ($5,100) and a diamond medal (value $600). It was something Swede Carlson had waited for since he was second-best in the Petersen Classic, 21 years...
Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 52 years ago, MacKenzie quit his studies at Dalhousie University to go overseas, won a Military Medal and Bar. Back at college, he took 39 courses to the average student's 20, worked his way through by digging postholes, taking census, parking cars. Then he took postgraduate courses in law at Harvard and Cambridge. For four years he worked on a Saskatchewan farm. He has long been one of Canada's top men in international affairs, was called by the Government in 1943 to head the Wartime Information Board...