Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...December Ralph Johnson Bunche will go to Oslo, Norway's capital, to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, which, according to the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, must be awarded "without distinction of nationality." In Oslo Bunche will get a gold medal and a cash award of about $31,700. He has not decided what he will do with the money. "I'm a very conservative person by nature," he said last week, "and I never spend anything before I get it." To celebrate the news, added the usually abstemious Bunche, he had bought a champagne...
...well as the eleventh American to win the award. Bunche's predecessors: Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Woodrow Wilson, Charles G. Dawes, Frank B. Kellogg, Nicholas Murray Butler and Jane Addams (joint winners), Cordell Hull, John R. Mott and Emily G. Balch (joint winners...
Recipient of an "Outstanding Citizen Award for 1950" from New York disabled veterans: U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Warren R. Austin...
...fevers) was feverishly expanded for war medicine. Since the war, new research groups have been added to attack mental and heart diseases and cancer. Dr. Dyer was too busy at his desk to do any lab work. Instead, he made a name for himself (and won a 1948 Lasker Award) fof his imagination and judgment in doling out millions of Government dollars for thousands of medical research projects...
...year ago last week, 13 U.S. newsmen (including TIME'S Jack Werkley), coming home from an assignment in Indonesia, died in the crash of a Dutch plane near Bombay, India (TIME, July 25, 1949). Last week, in their memory, The Netherlands government established the William the Silent Award. The prize, for the best annual article on The Netherlands by a U.S. writer in a U.S. newspaper or magazine: a gold medal and $2,500. Announcing the award, Editor Albert Balink of The Netherlands-U.S. magazine, Knickerbocker, explained: "William the Silent was the kind of personality any [newsman] would...