Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, dark-haired, amiable T/4 O'Neill (28) appeared at the State Capitol in Columbus. On furlough for the duration of the Legislature, he was still in uniform, still wearing his Good Conduct Medal, two bronze battle stars. Starting his fourth term (he was first elected at 22, was Republican whip last session), he went to the Speaker's rostrum, made a speech about what a great job U.S. soldiers were doing overseas. His colleagues rose and cheered...
Married. Commander David McCampbell, 35, No. 1 Navy ace (34 Jap planes, nine in one day), recently awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor; and Sara-Jane Heliker Kahn, 33, ex-daughter-in-law of the late Financier Otto H. Kahn; both for the second time; at Anacostia...
...Jurisprudence School, changed his mind after graduating, became a monk instead. A bishop since 1913, Alexei became Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod in 1933 during the church's dark days. Ten years later he gained fame as a great Soviet patriot and received the Defense of Leningrad Medal for refusing to leave the besieged city...
...140th annual show suitably stiffened with such veterans of the U.S. Old Guard as John Sloan, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, Thomas Benton. They also found some of the most unacademic art now being done in the U.S. The Pennsylvania Academy itself shucked tradition by giving its coveted Temple Medal to an out-&-out esthetic experimentalist: 51-year-old Abraham Rattner, a Paris-trained New Yorker...
Applicants for furloughs must have "at least three broken limbs . . . the Order of the Purple Heart with at least two Oak Leaf Clusters ... at least five of the following medals: Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, Iron Cross, Order of the Knight of the Bath, Navy Cross, Legion of Merit, Hero of the Soviet Union...