Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open Pittsburgh's social season and the 37th International. They spent more time looking at each other than they did at the pictures. But all of them at least glanced at Georgia Jungle. Jack Nash, as usual, had been right. It had won the $1,000 first prize...
...first time in years, the U. S. walked off with five of the eight Carnegie prizes, and did it with a true melting-pot flourish. Second prize went to Yasuo Kuniyoshi; second, third and fourth honorable mentions to Raphael Soyer, Aaron Bohrod and Ernest Fiene, U. S. artists all, though only Brook and Bohrod are native-born. Russian Marc Chagall, Spanish Mariano Andréu and Parisian Maurice Brianchon, who all paint in France, won the three remaining prizes...
...persons realize how greatly the cash-and-carry provisions of the Neutrality Act improve our position in comparison with the ticklish days of 1914-17. No longer will every sitting of a German prize court rouse the American people to a state of frenzy, for our ships will be kept out of dangerous seas. The "cash" ruling will enable the government to escape acting as a collection agency for big banks that loan money to the Allies. Unrestricted submarine warfare, the immediate occasion of our going to war against Germany in 1917, cannot now affect us. A good foundation...
Domack, who lives in Wuppertal, Germany, was awarded the prize for his discovery of Prontosil, an anti-bacterial preparation used in the treatment of various infectious diseases...
STOCKHOLM--The 1939 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded today to a German Professor, Gerhard Domack, in disregard of a decree by Chancellor Adolf Hitler forbidding Germans to accept any of the Nobel awards...