Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe's graduate chapter of the Alumnae Association awarded its annual medal Saturday to Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Astronomer at Harvard...
...grades in all courses, all four years; it was the first such scholastic record established at the University of Nevada in 17 years. Last week at commencement, the eyes of 227 classmates were on blind Bonifacio as he received Nevada's highest scholastic honor, the Herz Gold Medal...
...Medal for Merit. Sir William agreed to take on the Jamaica cement project. With the same quiet dexterity that won him a wartime U.S. Medal for Merit, he quickly organized the Caribbean Cement Co. Ltd., with himself as chairman (Ed Stettinius joined in as a director). He got a 19-year monopoly on Jamaican cement, and a scale of guaranteed prices (30% below the delivered cost of British cement, but still enough to make a tidy $221,650 annual profit...
...Learned that his military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, will not get to wear his medal from Argentina's Juan Peron, after all, because a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee refused to authorize it. The fight over the medal had inspired Truman's "s.o.b." blast at Columnist Drew Pearson...
...cold war. At the airport Louis Johnson bundled him into a long, black Cadillac and whisked him off to the White House. There, in the sunlight of the presidential rose garden; President Truman pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster on the riband of General Clay's Distinguished Service Medal and read a praise-packed citation he had written himself. "General Clay," intoned the President, ". . . proved himself not only a soldier in the finest tradition . . . not only an administrator of rare skill, but a statesman of the highest order...