Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Vincent Astor, peacetime yachtsman (the Nourmahal), was awarded the Navy Commendation Ribbon in Manhattan for "meritorious performance . . . initiative, unflagging energy and devotion" to administrative duties with the Confidential Fishing Vessel Observers, who watched for subs while fishing along the Atlantic Coast...
...Blue-Ribbon Conviction. One day in 1938, Campbell got word to look in at District Attorney Dewey's office. He did. Three hours later he was in the Tombs, accused of a $4,160 forgery. In a few speedy weeks he had a speedy trial. Four witnesses from banks positively identified him as the check passer. The hand-picked "blue-ribbon" jury saw its duty and did it. It was only because Bertram Campbell had never been arrested for anything before that the judge gave him the minimum sentence-five to ten years...
...Fyodor Tolbukhin, commander of the Third Ukrainian Army, made a bear of a speech at a vodka-and-compliments party celebrating a Russian-American linkup. After praising American womanhood for its part in the war, he spied in a corner a uniformed American girl. The Marshal flamboyantly removed a ribbon from his tunic, pinned it on the American working girl. She was Doris Duke Cromwell...
Prize Ship. The United States Lines and Britain's great Cunard White Star Ltd. both began maneuvering to obtain North German Lloyd's 50,000-ton, blue-ribbon liner Europa, found in fairly good condition. Neither wanted the Europa's sister ship, the Bremen, so badly damaged that she was considered a total loss...
Arms Around the Ruhr. The Ruhr encirclement-major prize in a week of blue ribbon advances-was a product of two armies. Lieut. General William H. Simpson's U.S. Ninth (under the tactical direction of Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery) threw one arm around the top. Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army (under General Omar N. Bradley's Twelfth Army Group) turned north, tore through the last German defenses to wrap the other arm. The Ninth and the First shook hands at a street corner in the little town of Lippstadt on Easter Sunday...