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This speech of Conant's was given by him at a dinner in New York where he received the annual award of the New York Academy of Public Education. He was also requested to read it before a meeting of the American Philosophical Society which he attended in Philadelphia...
Received New York Award...
...confident, confidential voice which seems to know all the answers last week won what may in time become the toploftiest prize in radio. The prize: a $1,000 Pulitzer-style award established last year by Mrs. Alfred I. du Pont and the Florida National Group of Banking Institutions for the year's best radio commentator. The winner: Mutual's Fulton Lewis Jr. He also got a solemn salute from the committee* which chose him: "In recognition and appreciation of his initiative in the aggressive, independent and meritorious gathering, interpretation and presentation of news through the medium of radio...
...Francis P. Gaines; Virginia's Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America; onetime NBC President Merlin H. Aylesworth; American Legion Auxiliary national President Ruth H. Mathebat; and Mrs. Du Pont. They gave the companion $1,000 award, for the radio station best serving its community and the nation, to General Electric's short-wave station KGEI of San Francisco...
...pointing out to Dean Lamb that he was receiving one of the highest awards that can be given to an American chemist, chairman of the award jury Professor William C. McTarish formally presented the medal, and further told Lamb that he was qualified for the honor on the basis of "interest in inorganic and physical chemistry, leadership against poison gas, and his ability as a teacher, administrator, and editor...