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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peace Award completed its referendum on the winning plan-providing for conditional entrance into the League of Nations (TIME, Feb. 11) - with a total vote of 610,558. There were 534,177 votes (87 1/2%) in favor of the plan; 76,381 (12 1/2%) opposed. In the event that the Committee of Award considers 534,177 votes to be "sufficient popular response," Dr. Charles H. Levermore (TIME, Feb. 11) will be presented with a second $50,000 cheque...
...Science as "the best book of the year in the scientific world"-a rather extravagant tribute. A letter from the nominating committee praised the logical development of the theories, which, if generally accepted, will revolutionize scientific thought. Nomination for the Nobel prize is not always equivalent to the award, and it is unusual for any announcements to be made before the Fall of the year in which the award is made...
Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor: "In The New York Times were published summaries of the peace plans of a number of unsuccessful contestants for the Bok award. My plan was included, as were also those of Charles W. Eliot, Bishop Charles H. Brent, David Starr Jordan, Simeon Strunsky (editorial writer on The New York Times) Dr. M. Carey Thomas (President Emeritus of Bryn Mawr College), William S. Culbertson (Vice Chairman U. S. Tariff Commission...
...Peace Conference in 1919; a member of the legal section of the secretarist of the League of Nations since 1919; and legal advisor to the International Labor Conference in Washington in 1919 and in Genoa in 1920. Professor Hudson has also recently won second place in the Bok Peace Award Contest...
Bradley De Lamater Nash 1G.B. of Brookline was yesterday awarded the first prize of $300 by the Chicago Trust Company for original research in business and finance, according to a statement made yesterday by Dean Ralph Heilman, award committee chairman of Northwestern University. His subject was "Investment Banking in England...