Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then followed some months of uneventful labor, the assembling of the organization which should handle the award, the determination of its exact conditions, the receipt of the aspiring plans (22,000 odd) their perusal by the jury of award, the announcement of the winning plan (its author remained unknown), the beginning of a great popular referendum...
...provisions of the award were that half of the award ($50,000) should be given when the plan was selected by the jury. This was done. The sec- ond $50,000 was to be given if and when 1) in substance and intent it was approved by the U. S. Senate or 2) the Jury of Award decided that it had an adequate degree of popular support...
Although the plan was presented to several individual Senators, it was never seriously taken up by the Senate as a whole, and the Jury of Award did not deem that the support of 534,177 out of 25,000,000 or 30,000,000 actual voters was sufficient popular response. So Dr. Levermore never got the second $50,000, and unless the necessary conditions are fulfilled before Mar. 5 of this year, the offer will expire...
...size of the award goes, it is hardly more than one-third the amount assessed against the Standard Oil Co. by Judge Landis ($29,000,000) at its dissolution in 1911. Of course, in the Standard Oil Case, a criminal case, the amount fixed was a fine and was set by the judge. In this case, a civil action, the $10,534,109 was damages and was fixed by the jury...
...number of peace prizes is multiplied, the volume of interest diminishes. The Bok plan received front page space; the Filene project drew substantial newspaper copy; the latest peace prize award remains unnoticed. Doctor Jordan of Leland Stanford has been granted the Herman prize for the best educational plan to maintain peace; its effect is too easily calculable...