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.
Grover Cleveland Hall of the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
For his editorials against gangsterism, floggings and racial and religious intolerance.
The Jury
The Jury
R.C.E. Brown(Chair)
George M. Hartt
Allen S. Will
Winners in Editorial Writing
F. Lauriston Bullard of the Boston Herald
For the editorial entitled, "We Submit."
Edward M. Kingsbury of The New York Times
For the editorial entitled "House of a Hundred Sorrows."
Editorial Staff of the Charleston (S.C.) News and Courier
For the editorial entitled "Plight of the South."
Editorial Staff of The Boston Herald
For an editorial entitled "Who Made Coolidge?"
1928 Prize Winners
Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
For "May His Shadow Never Grow Less."
Vernon Louis Parrington
Volumes One and Two; Volume Three was incomplete at the time of his death and published posthumously by his colleagues in 1930.