Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They will also see slim Dean John Howell Janeway Upham of Ohio State University, functioning as chairman of the board of trustees of the American Medical Association, suspend a gold medal by a green ribbon from the neck of portly Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring, 67, of Des Moines, retiring president...
Twenty-seven thousand Argentine school children, piping Brazilian patriotic airs in Portuguese, marched in one parade. President Vargas snipped a ribbon to open the newly widened Avenida Corrientes, driven at great expense through the middle of the business district. For eight city blocks it was roped off from traffic while 14 tango bands kept citizens dancing till dawn...
...taken the southern expresses from his capital to France. Returning once his private train nearly rolled off the ferry between Warnemünde and Gedser. On the same ferry some years later His Majesty was icebound all night. Last week in the bitter cold, he snipped the ribbon to open the bridge, while 30,000 of the 150,000 Danes who were expected roared approval, and a special radio car broadcast the ceremonies in four languages, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German...
Last week the fastest British ship in service was sold to the knackers for ?80,000 to be broken up for scrap. Because she was the world's biggest, longest, fastest liner at her launching in 1907, because for nearly a quarter-century she flew the Blue Ribbon speed pennant of the North Atlantic, the passing of R. M. S. Mauretania marked for many an ocean-going oldster...
...Manhattan Rotary club, War Ace Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was introduced as a winner of the Distinguished Service Cross with nine palms, the Croix de Guerre with four palms, the Congressional Medal of Honor, the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Snorted Ace Rickenbacker: "It is true that I could come here with a chest full of medals. But I do not wear the ribbons. ... I have no respect for decorations of that kind. I respect only the awards for peacetime service...