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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to justify Mr. Rockwell Kent's assertion that the intention of the donor has been violated in the recent award to "the advertisement most effective in the use of illustration." It is hardly credible that Mr. Bok should have sat idly by while this award has been four times made to the firm or person responsible for the advertisement rather than the painter of the picture utilized. Aside from the fact that the wording of the conditions seem to justify their present construction, the tacit assent of the donor to this arrangement should certainly be sufficient justification...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANDFUL OF SILVER | 3/22/1929 | See Source »

...long and honorable public career of Ex-Governor Smith, as well as the fine example of his private family life, are known and admired by the entire American people. These public and private virtues are inseparable from the man's sterling Catholicity." The formal reason for the award was Mr. Smith's having achieved "such discinction in his field of special endeavor as to reflect glory upon the Catholic faith." Actress Margaret Anglin received the medal for 1927; Edward N. Hurley for 1926. Other Laetare medallists: Patrick V. Hickey, founder of Catholic Review (1888); Theatrical Manager Augustin Daly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...income will be used from year to year by the President and Fellows on recommendation of the Division of Geology. The award will be made to one or more students of United States and Canadian birth at Harvard University in Mining Geology, preferably for help in summer work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Scholarship Founded | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

This prize is the third oldest in the University and has always attracted many candidates; last year 54 men reported at the preliminary trials. The award amounts to one prize of $50 and two of $20, and the selections may be given in English, Latin, or Greek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRTY MEN TAKE PART IN ORATORICAL TRIALS | 3/6/1929 | See Source »

...such opportunism prevail among statesmen, but England has still her champions of morality. Whate'er betide, none will be found stauncher than two famed scions of the historic House of Cecil. The elder of these two brothers, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, winner of the Woodrow Wilson $25,000 Peace Award (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924), resigned as British delegate to the League of Nations when he came to feel that the Empire was not fulfilling its whole moral duty to the League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cabinet on Brink | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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