For disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by a United States newspaper, published daily, Sunday or at least once a week, during the year, a gold medal.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch , by St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For its investigation and disclosures of wide spread corruption in the Internal Revenue Bureau and other departments of the government.
The Jury
The Jury
W.O. Dapping
Lloyd M. Felmly
Winners in Public Service
Miami Herald and Brooklyn Eagle
For their crime reporting during the year.
Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll.
Nebraska State Journal
For the campaign establishing the "Nebraska All-Star Primary" presidential preference primary which spotlighted, through a bi-partisan committee, issues early in the presidential campaign.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For the coverage of the Centralia, Illinois, mine disaster and the follow-up which resulted in impressive reforms in mine safety laws and regulations.
1952 Prize Winners
Max Kase
For his exclusive exposures of bribery and other forms of corruption in the popular American sport of basketball, which exposures tended to restore confidence in the game's integrity.
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For the news coverage of the great regional flood of 1951 in Kansas and Northwestern Missouri-a distinguished example of editing and reporting that also gave the advance information that achieved the maximum of public protection.