Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specifically, the award was made because...
...Stanley Resor of the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency, and Bruce Barton of the Barton, Durstine, Osborne Agency, originally members of the Jury of Award, resigned last fall in order that their agencies or clients might be free to submit material for the prizes if they so desired. Under the rules laid down by the Jury of Award, firms represented on the jury may not submit material. The places of these two men were filled by Milton Towne of the Joseph Richards Company and George, Carter Sherman of the Sherman and Lebair Agency, both of New York...
Ladislas St. Reymont (TIME, Nov. 24) was awarded the 1924 Nobel prize for literature. Publisher Alfred Knopf sighed contentedly, poured forth a generous libation to the partial goddess of chance, bestirred himself to call the attention of the curious public to the fact that he had just, with commendable prevision, published the first of four parts of Ladislas St. Reymont's chief work. "Autumn, volume one of The Peasants," said Publisher Knopf some weeks ago, "would appear to be undoubtedly the greatest Polish novel of the Century." The award of the Nobel Prize goes far to support its publisher...
...Belmont Theater prize of $500, which is the title of the award which Mr. Carlton has won, is given annually for the prose dramatic composition of at least three acts, submitted in competition, and judged by a committee to be best suited for professional production. The competition is open only to past or present members of "English 47," Professor Baker's course in playwriting, and the award in addition to the $500 entails professional production in New York, within six months, by Mr. Herndon, the donor...
...jury which for many weeks searched the U. S., selecting from proposed entries those which best recommended themselves to the eye, with a continual hope of discovering among young artists some mute, inglorious Millet, some untrumpeted Whistler or coy Corot. The pictures were put on view; prizes were awarded. To Eugene F. Savage of Manhattan went the Frank G. Logan medal, carrying with it $1,500, for his painting Recessional, which showed (lifesize) the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, fire in their nostrils, clouds in their hair, racing and racing down the midway of eternity. Malcolm Parcell, also of Manhattan...