For the best editorial article written during the year, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning and power to influence public opinion in the right direction, due account being taken of the whole volume of the writer’s editorial work during the year, $500.
Bart Howard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
The Jury
The Jury
Carl Ackerman
Dean
Roscoe Ellard
Winners in Editorial Writing
Ronald G. Callvert of The (Portland) Oregonian
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year as exemplified by the editorial entitled "My Country 'Tis of Thee."
William Wesley Waymack of The Des Moines Register & Tribune
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
John W. Owens of The Baltimore Sun
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
Felix Morley of The Washington Post and George B. Parker of Scripps-Howard Newspapers
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
1940 Prize Winners
Otto D. Tolischus of The New York Times
For his dispatches from Berlin.
Edmund Duffy of The Baltimore Sun
For "The Outstretched Hand."