Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps the most interesting thing about the naming of Mr. Hillyer is not the distinction of the post which he is to fill, nor the impressive list of books which he has published or prizes like the Pultizer Poetry Award which he has won. It is rather the unique point of view of the man himself. For in times of changing values, both in the world about us and especially in literature, Mr. Hillyer has steered a tolerant, sane, and mature course. As a man of letters he has not gone off into the wilderness with many other modern poets...
...Pulitzer pickers, was You Can't Take It With You, a genial, highly professional piece of playwrighting by George S. Kaufman (Merrily We Roll Along, Stage Door), and Moss Hart (Once In A Lifetime, Jubilee) (TIME, Dec. 28). Sombre-eyed, successful Mr. Kaufman was in on the 1932 award for his part in Of Thee I Sing...
Cartoon. To tall Clarence Daniel Batchelor of the New York News (TIME, Oct. 26) went the $500 cartoonist's award for a picture of a harlot labeled "War" enticing a boy labeled "Any European Youth." Caption: "Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your daddy...
Service to a community by its newspaper was most admirably exemplified, the committee held, by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, whose publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, is on the board of award. For exposure of fraudulent election registration in St. Louis last summer (TIME, Sept. 28), the Post-Dispatch was given a big gold Pulitzer plaque...
...Susan Anthony Potter Prize was won by Karl E. Schevill '37 of Berkely, California, a transfer student from the University of California in 1934. This award is given annually for the best essay by an undergraduate dealing with the Spanish literature of the Golden...