Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vice President Juan Pistarini. Both sent their best warships. On the sleek, British-built cruiser La Argentina (6,000 tons), President Dutra received the collar of San Martin. Aboard the mighty carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt (45,000 tons),he watched 75 warplanes roar into the air, but got no medal. Both the U.S. and Argentina scheduled-the same evening-lavish embassy receptions. President Dutra solved that problem by attending both, became the first Brazilian President to set foot in the U.S. Embassy...
Last week Joseph T. O'Callahan, S.J. (now a full commander assigned to the new carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt) received for heroism aboard the Franklin a hero's reward: the Congressional Medal of Honor. Added lustre: never before had a chaplain won the medal...
...Added two Oak Leaf Clusters to Air Forces General Henry H. Arnold's Distinguished Service Medal-for creating and expanding the air corps program...
Presented the Congressional Medal of Honor to six war heroes in the White House...
Columbia University last week gave a Maria Moors Cabot Gold Medal for hemisphere service to Brazil's most potent publisher, small, dynamic, tack-sharp Dr. Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand...