Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palestine Mediator Dr. Ralph J. Bunche won the Spingarn Medal (from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) for 1948-3 highest achievement by a U.S. Negro...
...object of the dinner was to honor the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who had been the target lately of some salvos fired by Columnist Drew Pearson. When Argentina's Juan Perón sent along a medal for General Vaughan, "a brilliant soldier in the glorious Army of the United States," Pearson thought thegeneral's acceptance of it out of keeping with President Truman's championing of democractic principles. The members of the R.O.A. thought otherwise. To affirm their confidence in General Vaughan, they presented him with a scroll naming him "Minute...
...small fire in his private plane as it flew over Colombia), reached a new high in Argentina. He and his wife were honor guests at a four-hour luncheon at the Buenos Aires country place of Juan Perón. After lunch, Juan gave Bertie a medal, a diploma and a well-phrased pat on the back: "This medal ... is presented to honest men. I award it to you as an honest man who directs honest institutions which report the news of Argentina and Latin America honestly and accurately...
Gretchen Fraser, Vancouver, Wash, housewife who swept women's skiing honors at the winter Olympics last year, took a practical view of one of her trophies. "It's a lovely medal," she said thoughtfully, "but it's too heavy to wear and it won't make a good ashtray. What can you do with six ounces of pure gold...
...Charlie Shuttleworth is grinding his teeth with anguish over his wife ("the cow!") who "jacked me in for a civvy"; Major Maddison is exulting as his platoon-in-training comes crashing through a barbed-wire obstacle with blood running from their face scratches (and he furtively pins a putative medal to his chest in the secrecy of his room); Colonel Pothecary, a plain man, stumbles warmheartedly through his announcement of the invasion: "Well, my lads. This is it. At last. You know, I'm damned if I know what to say to you . . . Eat when you can, and keep...