Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Garfield H. Horn '40 of Winthrop House and Long Beach, California was cited by the House scholarship committee for general "intellectual merit" at the Christmas dinner last night. President Conant made the award, a pair of silver candlesticks...
...aide of Madame la Mar&#;chale is the famed French heroine-nurse of World War I who as Mile Georgette Saint-Paul won the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with two palms and two stars, Müdaille des Epidemics, the U. S. Certificate of Merit. She is now Mrs. T. Bentley Mott, wife of the head of the American Fund for French Wounded, Colonel Mott, onetime liaison officer between Marshal Foch and General Pershing. The whole Biarritz colony, French and foreign, are exceptionally war-work-minded, last week were furiously getting truckloads of warm clothing, cigarets and sweets...
Senator Mihai's star birthday present was an $18,000 Mercedes-Benz sport car capable of 115 m.p.h. King Carol also gave Mihai's girl friend a decoration. The Order of Cultural Merit went to Helen Malxa, attractive and always well-chaperoned daughter of one of Rumania's richest industrialists. Anxious to damp scandal, Court functionaries maintained last week that the "platonic summer romance" of Mihai and Helen is now over. A few months ago they claimed that "His Royal Highness and Miss Malxa have never...
Manhattan's Pratt School of Business bestowed on Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia a testimonial of special merit. Reason: 30 years ago it had taught him shorthand and typing in 30 hours. The Mayor's counter-testimonial: the day he finished his 30-hour course (cost $7.50), he got a job with Abercrombie & Fitch at $18 a week...
...nominations for the Union Committee were originally made by the proctors and by the Dean's office. The list was boiled down from 250 to approximately 45 names on the basis of school records. Then the final twelve were picked according to merit, and according to geographical, school, and dormitory distribution