No Crusader Rewarded

No. U. S. newspaper under scrutiny by the Pulitzer Prize Committee rendered a public service in 1929 sufficiently disinterested and meritorious to deserve a gold medal. Not that newspapers did not crusade. The New York World, for example, crusaded against corruption in bankruptcy courts. The New York Evening Post exposed in Germany the forgery of documents involving Senator Borah in Soviet bribery. But the prize committee (names withheld) were either unimpressed or unable to agree. No reason was given for the no-award. Nor was there a 1929 award for "best editorial."

Pulitzer prizes for 1929 which were announced last week included the following:

Best Foreign Correspondence: $500 to Leland Stowe of the New York Herald Tribune (reparations and international bank).

Best Reporting: $1,000 to Russell Owen of the New York Times (Byrd expedition) and $500 to W. 0. Dapping of the Auburn, N. Y. Citizen (Auburn prison mutiny).

Best Cartoon: $500 to Charles L. Macauley of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle ("Paying for a dead horse").

Best Novel: $1,000 to Oliver LaFarge Laughing Boy).

Best Play: $1,000 to Marc Connelly The Green Pastures--reviewed in TIME, March 10).

Best Book on U. S. History: $2,000 to Claude H. Van Tyne (The War of Independence).

Best American Biography: $1,000 to Marquis James (The Raven, A Biography of Sam Houston).

Best Volume of Verse: $1,000 to Conrad Aiken (Selected Poems).

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