Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old anti-war Polemist Rosika Schwimmer, originator of the Ford Peace Ship plan in 1915, went a World Peace Prize Award of $8,300, collected from 24 countries by an international committee including Albert Einstein, Emil Ludwig, Stefan Zweig, Ignazio Silone. Mme Schwimmer fled her native Hungary in 1920 after political upheavals which ousted her from the national cabinet, was denied U. S. citizenship by the Supreme Court in 1929. A tireless, homeless agitator, she has been freely circularized by her enemies as "German spy, Bolshevik agent and swindler of Henry Ford," by her friends as "the world...
Although the legend of Troy exerts less influence on the imaginations of men in the present day and age than perhaps for many decades, nevertheless the most illiterate school-child is familiar with the fundamentals of the story,--the struggle of the Goddesses for the Golden Apple, its award by Paris to Venus, the faithlessness of Helen to her Greek King-husband Menelaus, and the subsequent war on the windy plains, and ultimate disaster. These are the events told by Homer in lines that for the few who still can taste them in this apostate age are the ultimate...
...hillbillies, to study industry in factories, to travel in Europe. Last week New College's head, sharp-faced Dr. Thomas Alexander, went a step farther. Although most U. S. school officials expect their teachers to stay out of politics and economic conflicts. Dr. Alexander announced his college would award scholarships next term to the two students who had been most active politically and socially. Credit will be given for work in organizing unions, soapbox speaking, electioneering for any political party-left. centre or right. If colleges can subsidize athletes, said he, they can "encourage the socially conscious student...
Dean Landis will appoint the committee, which may withhold the award entirely, if in its judgment no worthy paper is submitted, or may divide the award...
...expected that the paper winning the award offered to Harvard students will be published in the local periodicals and that the best paper received from all schools in the competition will be published in an outstanding legal journal of national circulation...