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Former American journalism award
The
Pulitzer Prize for Reporting was awarded from 1917 to 1947.
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Winners
1917 :
Herbert Bayard Swope ,
New York World , for articles which appeared October 10, October 15 and from November 4 daily to November 22, 1916, inclusive, entitled, "Inside the German Empire".
1918 :
Harold A. Littledale of
New York Evening Post , for a series of articles exposing abuses in and leading to the reform of the
New Jersey State prison .
1919 : No award given.
1920 :
John J. Leary, Jr. of
New York World , for the series of articles written during the
national coal strike in the winter of 1919 .
1921 :
Louis Seibold of the New York World , for
an interview with Woodrow Wilson that was later exposed as fraudulent.
1922 :
Kirke L. Simpson of
Associated Press , for articles on the burial of
The Unknown Soldier .
1923 :
Alva Johnston of
The New York Times , for his reports of the proceedings of the convention of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Cambridge Mass, in December, 1922.
1924 :
Magner White ,
San Diego Sun , for his
story of the eclipse of the sun .
1925 :
James W. Mulroy and
Alvin H. Goldstein of the
Chicago Daily News , for their service toward the solution of the murder of
Robert Franks, Jr. , in Chicago on May 22, 1924, and the bringing to justice of
Nathan F. Leopold and Richard Loeb .
1926 :
William Burke Miller of the
Louisville Courier-Journal , for his work in connection with the story of the trapping in
Sand Cave ,
Kentucky , of
Floyd Collins .
1927 :
John T. Rogers of the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch , for the inquiry leading to the
impeachment of Judge
George W. English of the United States Court for the Eastern District of Illinois.
1928 : No award given.
1929 :
Paul Y. Anderson of the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch For his highly effective work in bringing to light a situation which resulted in revealing the disposition of Liberty Bonds purchased and distributed by the Continental Trading Company in connection with naval oil leases.
1930 :
Russell Owen of
The New York Times For his reports by radio of the
Byrd Antarctic Expedition .
1931 :
A. B. MacDonald of
The Kansas City Star For his work in connection with a murder in
Amarillo, Texas .
1932 : W. C. Richards, D. D. Martin, J. S. Pooler, F. D. Webb and J. N. W. Sloan of
Detroit Free Press for
their account of the parade of the American Legion during the 1931 convention in
Detroit .
1933 : Francis A. Jamieson of
Associated Press for his prompt, full, skillful and prolonged coverage of news of the kidnapping of the infant son of
Charles Lindbergh on March 1, 1932, from the first announcement of the kidnapping until after the discovery of the baby's body nearby the Lindbergh home on May 12.
1934 : Royce Brier of
San Francisco Chronicle for
his account of the lynching of the kidnappers, John M. Holmes and Thomas H. Thurmond in
San Jose, California . On November 26, 1933 after they had been jailed for abducting
Brooke Hart , a merchant's son.
1935 : William Taylor of the
New York Herald Tribune for the series of articles on the international yacht races.
1936 :
Lauren D. Lyman of
The New York Times for the exclusive story revealing that the
Charles Lindbergh family was leaving the United States to live in England.
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1937 :
John J. O'Neill ,
William L. Laurence ,
Howard W. Blakeslee ,
Gobind Behari Lal and
David Dietz of
New York Herald Tribune ,
The New York Times ,
AP , Universal Service and
Scripps-Howard , for their coverage of science at the
Tercentenary of
Harvard University .
1938 :
Raymond Sprigle of
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for his series of articles, supported by photostats of the essential documents, exposing the one-time membership of Mr. Justice
Hugo Black in the
Ku Klux Klan .
1939 :
Thomas Lunsford Stokes of
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance for his series of articles on alleged intimidation of workers for the
Works Progress Administration in Pennsylvania and Kentucky during an election. The articles were published in
The New York World-Telegram .
1940 :
S. Burton Heath of the
New York World-Telegram for his expose of the frauds perpetrated by
Federal judge
Martin T. Manton , who resigned and was tried and imprisoned.
1941 :
Westbrook Pegler of the
New York World-Telegram for his articles on scandals in the ranks of organized labor, which led to the exposure and conviction of
George Scalise , a labor
racketeer .
1942 :
Stanton Delaplane of the
San Francisco Chronicle for his articles on the
State of Jefferson , the movement of several California and Oregon counties to secede to form a forty-ninth state.
1943 :
George Weller of the
Chicago Daily News for
his story of an emergency appendectomy performed on a submarine under enemy waters.
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1944 : Paul Schoenstein and Associates of
New York Journal American For a news story published on August 12, 1943, which saved the life of a two-year-old girl in the Lutheran Hospital of New York City by obtaining penicillin.
1945 : Jack S. McDowell of the
San Francisco Call For his campaign to encourage blood donations.
1946 :
William L. Laurence of
The New York Times for his eye-witness account of the atom-bombing of
Nagasaki and his subsequent ten articles on the development, production, and significance of the
atomic bomb .
1947 :
Frederick Woltman of the
New York World-Telegram for his articles during 1946 on the infiltration of Communism in the United States.
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