Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father Randolph has been working for years on a book called The Coming of Freedom. Said National Institute President Arthur ("Mr. Tutt") Train: "The American people owe a great debt to this man, once famous, now almost forgotten." Said old-time Editor McClure (who will get his medal-and $1,000-in May): "I am unfamiliar with [present magazines]. I haven't read one in ten years...
William Martin ("Bull Bill") Jeffers, Union Pacific office boy turned U.P. president, recently chief bridger of the wartime rubber gap, won the American Irish Historical Society's annual gold medal for outstanding achievement by a wearer of the green...
This week, to 21-year-old Johnnie David Hutchins, son of a Texas sharecropper, went a posthumous award-the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...death had brought new life to his home. In Lissie, Texas, his brother and five sisters were finally living in a home of their own, bought with Johnnie's death benefits. His parents were readying for a trip to Washington, at Government expense, to accept Johnnie's medal from the President...
...battle of War Bonnet Gorge, for which Cody was given the Congressional Medal of Honor, is the most notable sequence: Filmed on the scene of the original battle, it is made vivid and real by the brilliance of technicolor which gives breath-taking color to the outdoor scenes. Charging from either end of a gorge, the soldiers and Indians meet in the shallow water of the stream bed. The battle which ensues is terrific in its ferocity. So much water is splashed that the lens of the camera gets wet--it really does--you can see the drops running down...