Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offered (TIME, July 9, Nov. 26) $100,000 for the most practical plan by which the U. S. may cooperate with other nations to secure world peace. To the author of the plan chosen by the Jury of Award, $50,000 will now be given. An additional $50,000 will be given to the author if the practicability of the plan is demonstrated through adoption by the Senate or because of "a sufficient popular response...
...midnight Nov. 15 the time for submitting plans closed, with a total of 22,165 plans filed. In all some 800,000 letters were received by the Policy Committee of the Award. The plans were given to the Jury of Award without the authors' names attached...
Seven good men and true, Democrats and Republicans from several walks of life, constituted the Jury of Award: Elihu Root, Secretary of State under Roosevelt, Chairman; General James Guthrie Harbord, Chief of Staff of the A. E F.; Colonel Edward M. House, familiar of Woodrow Wilson; Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College; Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School; William Allen White, Kansas editor; Brand Whitlock, U. S. Minister to Belgium during...
...vote "yes" in the referendum. To stimulate interest further, he announced in the January issue of the Atlantic Monthly that if the referendum were favorable to the plan, he would take "a second step toward the advancement of world peace with a far wider scope and intent and an award larger and more important in every respect...
...have been included in the French New Year's Honor list with an award of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Upon hearing of the imminence of his death, President Millerand and Marshal Petain went to the hospital and pinned the insignia to his breast shortly before he expired...