Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christiania (Sweden) Evening Post published a list of names that have been proposed for the next award of the Nobel peace prize. They include Jane Addams, Secretary Hughes, Lord Robert Cecil, Professor John Maynard Keynes (author of The Economic Consequences of the Peace), Francisco Nitti (former Premier of Italy), Carl Lindhagen (Mayor of Stockholm), Warren G. Harding...
Elihu Root, ex-Secretary of State, one of the few veteran statesmen that this country can claim, accepted the first place offered on the jury which will award Edward Bok's prize of $100,000 for a practical plan to promote world peace?a plan in which this country can participate. Announcement of the appointment of six more jurors is expected before Sept...
...American Peace Award, the organization which is administering Edward Bok's $100,000 prize contest for a plan whereby the U. S. can promote world peace (TIME, July 9, July 16) announced that a referendum of the country on the winning plan will be taken about January 1, 1924. Fifty societies and organizations throughout the country have been organized to aid in taking the poll. The object of the referendum is that the plan may be taken before Congress with a definite indication of how the public feels towards the proposal...
That Dr. Frederick Grant Banting, discoverer of? insulin,* will receive the next award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine seems logical from a survey of the scientific achievements of the past year. It has been suggested from several sources, and from the Edinburgh International Congress of Physiology comes the story that Dr. Banting will be recommended to the Swedish Academy of Medicine, which acts as the jury for this prize on behalf of the Nobel Foundation, custodians of the fund established in 1896 by the will of Alfred B. Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite. The average value...
President Lowell, of Harvard, expects the Bok peace prize to evoke new ideas for the administration of international affairs. President Pritchett, of the Carnegie Foundation, feels it unlikely that the award will produce any feasible recommendation other than a recommendation for some sort of " international association for common education." President Faunce, of Brown, thinks the studying done for the award will widen the American horizon, as does Chancellor Emeritus Jordan, of Leland Stanford. President Hopkins, of Dartmouth, believes the award may prove "the most helpful stimulus yet proposed for making articulate the desire of the American people for such increased...