Norman H. Davis, chairman of the American Red Cross, has been voted the 97th Anniversary Award of B’nai B’rith, symbolizing “honor, duty and achievement,” and will receive it at a Covenant breakfast at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Feb. 16, it was announced today.
Davis accepted the award after it had been tendered to him at Red Cross headquarters here by Col. A. Ralph Steinberg, a member of the award committee, and Maurice Bisgyer, secretary of B’nai B’rith. It is in recognition of his humanitarian services as head of the Red Cross and his insistence that Red Cross relief supplies in the German-controlled areas of war-torn Europe be distributed on a completely non-sectarian basis.
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