Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continued, "it essentially one of cooperation with the other nations of the world, not a peace plan. It may be a very short step, yet it is a step in the right direction." As Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College and member of the Jury of Award, said at the luncheon: "The step is an exceedingly short one, but it is the longest the American people are prepared to take...
...this is all admirable; it is the comment of an intelligent mind, and above all it displays a typically Gallic politeness toward those whose day of conquest is generally considered past; but when the savant undertakes to award prizes to those writers who mention heroines of notably advanced ages, he may fairly be suspected of harboring somewhere in the depths of his soul a sour-grapes complex, Balzac, for example, receives the Prix d'Excellence for six heroines adored anywhere between forty and forty-seven, and for one beloved at fifty-five. Any author who has a candidate over thirty...
Prize. The general give-and-take of counsel and advice was interrupted by the announcement of a prize. It is a peace prize to be awarded for a 5,000-(or less) word plan. But the plan must be nonpolitical. It must be a plan to promote peace by education. [This was the great theme ot an educational convention in San Francisco last year.] The prize is $25,000. Its giver is Raphael Herman†, of Detroit. Members of the jury of award include: Banker Robinson of Los Angeles, President Jones of the N. E. A., Governor Baxter of Maine...
Edward William Bok: "It became known that one Samuel S. Fleisher, founder of a free night art school which has celebrated its 25th anniversary, was the winner for 1923 of the Philadelphia award ($10,000) presented annually by me to that person who gives Philadelphia the most distinguished service. Previous winners of my award are Leopold Stokowski, orchestra leader, and Dr. Russell H. Conwell, President of Temple University...
Sixty-seven claims were allowed. Those claimants who could not prove direct pecuniary loss had their claims rejected. Thus, where death involved no financial loss to a relative or dependent, no award was made. Two hundred cases have yet to be considered...