Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S Pentagon is not wearing the Purple Heart but the Legion of Merit -which should have been put after the Silver Star instead of ahead...
Born: Nov. 15, 1891, in New York; silver-spoon son of Railroad Empire Builder E. H. Harriman who controlled 60,000 miles of the nation's rails, including the Union Pacific...
...Silver-haired Governor Luther Youngdahl was the Republican Party's shiniest star in Minnesota. He had been twinkling brightly ever since former Governor Harold E. Stassen picked him off the state supreme court bench in 1946, persuaded him to run for governor. He was sometimes too radical for conservatives in his party, but when they opposed him he went to the people and won. Minnesota political pundits thought he could beat anybody for any office in the state, expected him to be re-elected for a fourth term in 1952 and to beat Democrat Senator Hubert Humphrey...
...Army's top horsemen. After graduating from West Point (1920), he switched from the cavalry to the infantry. A tough, rangy, veteran line commander, he headed the 28th Division's 112th Infantry Combat team in World War II, was wounded in France, won the Silver Star for gallantry in action. Married, has two daughters, and a son at West Point...
...heroic action" at Les Andalouses, Algeria, in 1942, when a patrol under his command fought off a superior enemy force. This award made the eldest son of T.R. the winner of every Army combat medal given by the U.S. Government, including a World War I Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star with clusters, the Purple Heart, and a World War II posthumous Medal of Honor for action at Normandy, where he died of a heart attack...