Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week this complicated procedure came to an end for the 100th World War veteran to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. From Atlanta to Washington went Samuel Iredell Parker, 45-year-old employe of a textile dye company. There in the presence of his wife, sister, son, daughter and brother, U. S. Circuit Court Judge John J. Parker (see cut), whose nomination to the U. S. Supreme Court by President Hoover was rejected by the Senate six years ago (TIME, May 19, 1930), he gravely accepted from President Roosevelt the $2 Medal which made him the 1,825th person...
...took the War Department nearly 18 years to decide that Hero Parker's heroics rated the Medal of Honor. On July 18, 1918, the 28th infantry of the A.E.F.'s First division found itself in a tough frontline sector near Soissons. Between it and a troop of French Colonials on its left was a jutting mound and rock quarry from which a nest of German machine guns spat a relentless enfilade fire. Seeing that the U. S. flank would soon be shredded to bits, Lieutenant Parker ordered his platoon and a group of wandering, disorganized French Colonials...
...Sickle, out of Ormanda. *In one of her rare visits to the race track last week, Trainer Mary Hirsch's younger sister Katherine placed $2 on Bernard Mamies Baruch's Joyride, whose victory brought her $10. Later she placed the same amount on New York Representative Parker Coming's Flying Mare, who galloped home in the lead, brought her $26. Total winnings for Sister Katherine on Sister Mary's horses...
Liewilyn T. Evans, assistant in Biology, and Robert C. Foster '26 have been awarded Parker fellowships in Biology, with stipends of $1,500 each, University Hall announced yesterday...
This scene, funny though it is, is not quite enough to make The Moon's Our Home diverting for the hour and 20 minutes it runs. Following the fashion, critics will doubtless credit Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell with the many knowing lines and pleasant minor touches, hold the lesser scribblers who worked on the picture responsible for such hackneyed characterizations as Henrietta Crosman as a termagant grandmother whose heart is secretly abrim with kindness and Charles Butterworth in his infinitely tiresome reproduction of an infinitely tired young...