Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance , by Thomas Lunsford Stokes
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.
Winners in Reporting
Raymond Sprigle
For his series of articles, supported by photostats of the essential documents, exposing the one-time membership of Mr. Justice Hugo L. Black in the Ku Klux Klan.
John J. O'Neill, William L. Laurence, Howard W. Blakeslee, Gobind Behari Lal and David Dietz
For their coverage of science at the tercentenary of Harvard University.
Lauren D. Lyman
For his exclusive story revealing that the Charles A. Lindbergh family was leaving the United States to live in England.
William H. Taylor
For his series of articles on the international yacht races.
1939 Prize Winners
Louis P. Lochner
For his dispatches from Berlin
Charles G. Werner
For "Nomination for 1938."