Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus warned, the Nobel Committee considered another Carl, Sweden's Prince Carl, who had been active in Swedish Red Cross work during the World War in Siberia and lately in Ethiopia. This stopgap fell through when a clerk discovered that Prince 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...
...ever a man worked, fought & suffered for Peace, it is the sickly little German, Carl von Ossietzky. For nearly a year the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has been swamped with petitions from all shades of Socialists, Liberals and literary folk generally, nominating Carl von Ossietzky for the 1935 Peace Prize. Their slogan: "Send the Peace Prize into the Concentration Camp...
Friends warned him to flee Germany the day Hitler became Chancellor. He refused and on the night of the Reichstag Fire he was swept up into prison by Nazi secret police without a second thought. Of all this the Nobel Peace Prize Committee was reminded this year by such people as Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Romain Rolland, John Dewey, Albert Einstein...
...late Alfred Bernhard Nobel, inventor of dynamite, made much of his money in munitions, provided in his will that the prize fund should be transferred to "safe securities," which the executors have interpreted to mean first mortgage bonds. The Peace Prize is awarded by a committee chosen by the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), while the other four prizes (Literature, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry) are determined by Swedes. Three weeks ago the Committee took pained notice of a story in the Schwarze Korps, official organ of Adolf Hitler's special guard, warning the Peace Prize Committee "not to provoke the German people...
Soviet Russia does not coddle very many of its people, for example its railway workers of whom it has plenty, but it does coddle its topflight scientists, with whom it is not overburdened. Sedulously coddled is the only living Russian Nobel Prizewinner in the sciences, grouchy, bearded old Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who can bark with impunity that he does not like a government of "illiterate Communists." Lately another example of Russian scientist-coddling has seemed to certain Britons like the embrace of a selfish bear. But the British can take their science more calmly than the Russians, as they...