Word: awarders
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Wilson Prize. The 1926 Woodrow Wilson Foundation medal and prize of $25,000 were awarded last week to 81-year-old Republican jurist-statesman Elihu Root for his services toward the creation of the World Court.* Why does Mr. Root deserve the prize, any more than the eleven other international jurists with whom he drew up in 1920 the World Court Protocol? He suggested how the judges of the World Court could be amicably selected among the nations. That problem had everyone well stumped. Mr. Root's idea: Let the international mechanism already functioning smoothly to select the jurists...
...again went to the Union Pacific last week. My husband, of whose $100,000,000 estate I am sole heir and manager, built up the Union Pacific system. My sons are both directors. The Union Pacific, which received the medal in 1925 for its 1924 record, obtained the present award because last year its locomotives traveled the equivalent of 53,000,000 miles and carried the equivalent of 1,000,000,000 passengers a mile each, during which time not a single passenger and only five employes were killed...
...most literary translation into Latin of the conversation between Marcus Tullius Cicero and Quinctus Cicero in William Savage Landor's "Imaginary Conversations" there is a $50 award. The selection to be translated includes everything from the opening of the conversation to the Words "remembering longer among...
Announcement has been made of the men appointed to the Jury of Award for the Harvard Advertising Awards, founded in 1923 by Edward Bok. Twelve jurors were appointed by Dean W. B. Donham '98, of the Harvard Business School, to make the awards for the current year...
...special jury, which will make the award for the advertisement most effective in the use of the Typography, was also appointed, consisting of Joseph M. Bowles of the William Edwin Rudge Company, Printing House of New York; Everett R. Currier, President of Currier and Hartford, Ltd., New York; and D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press, Boston...