Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bentons, the Currys, the Woods, the Krolls and the Speichers all looked disdainfully down their artistic noses at Oldster Waugh (pronounced Waw). Last week for the second successive year Artist Waugh won the $200 prize for the most popular painting at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh. This award went to his Ante Meridian not on the say-so of any highbrow judges but by a majority vote of the 116,000 plain people who had visited the Carnegie show since October...
There was little criticism of the society's chief award, a $50 first prize to Kerr Eby for an impressive oblong plate, September 13, 1918. This etching showed an endless line of steel-helmeted soldiers plodding on toward the Front under an enormous black cloud while lines of wounded squatted in the ditches, waiting for them to pass...
FROM ROUSSEAU TO PROUST-Havelock Ellis-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Before the Nobel Prize Committee announced that no award for literature would be given this year, the magazine Books Abroad conducted a symposium to test the opinion of U. S. critics on likely candidates. Maxim Gorki received five votes, Theodore Dreiser three, Willa Cather, André Gide, Eugene O'Neill and Franz Werfel two, while a number of others, ranging from Havelock Ellis to Christopher Morley, received one apiece. If consistency of purpose, unremitting productivity, a distinguished career, were sole criteria, few critics could object to the choice of Havelock...
...Carl's name had been submitted a few days after the deadline. Suddenly the Committee realized it was not obliged to name anybody, having in the past skipped four War years and four years since. Lamely last week it announced there would be no 1935 Nobel Peace Prize award because "with war raging in Africa, Anglo-Italian tension continued in the Mediterranean and a new puppet state approaching establishment in the Far East, the time seems inappropriate for such a peace gesture...
John Harvard Scholarships have been given each year since 1895. There is no stipend. The requirements to rank in the top honor group, and thus to receive this award...