PRESIDENT PRESENTS MEDAL TO COHAN FOR 'OVER THERE' WAR SONG. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TODAY PRESENTED A GOLD MEDAL TO GEORGE M. COHAN IN BELATED RECOGNITION OF COHAN'S SERVICES AS COMPOSER OF TWO PATRIOTIC SONGS DURING THE WORLD WAR, 'OVER THERE' AND 'THE GRAND OLD FLAG.' COHAN WROTE THE SONG, AND MONEY FROM SALES WERE GIVEN TO CHARITY. THE MEDAL WAS AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS IN 1936. IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS SOME RESEMBLANCE IN COHAN TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WHOM HE CHARACTERIZED IN A RECENT PLAY
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A man in a suit is holding a medal.
Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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Date
01/01/1940
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Harris & Ewing, photographer
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Library of Congress
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