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Nicholas Murray Butler

Job title
president
First name
Nicholas Murray
Last name
Butler

Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862-December 7, 1947) was an educator and university president; an adviser to seven presidents and friend of statesmen in foreign nations; recipient of decorations from fifteen foreign governments and of honorary degrees from thirty-seven colleges and universities; a member of more than fifty learned societies and twenty clubs; the author of a small library of books, pamphlets, reports, and speeches; an international traveler who crossed the Atlantic at least a hundred times; a national leader of the Republican Party; an advocate o

Employer
Columbia University
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Nicholas Murray Butler
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Sevellon Brown

Job title
editor
First name
Sevellon
Last name
Brown

(Courtesy of United Press International.)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Sevellon Brown III, veteran Washington correspondent and reporter for the Providence Journal-Bulletin, died Wednesday at Rhode Island Hospital. He was 70,

Brown worked at the Journal-Bulletin from 1939 to 1968 when he retired because of ill health.

He was born in Washington on April 23, 1913, the son of Sevellon and Elizabeth Barry Brown.

Employer
The Providence Journal
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Carl W. Ackerman

Job title
dean, Graduate School of Journalism
First name
Carl W.
Last name
Ackerman

(Courtesy of the Columbia University Libraries)

Carl William Ackerman (1890-1970), Columbia University B. Litt. 1913, was Dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism from 1931 to 1956. He spent from 1960 to 1962 researching and writing a biography (unpublished) of Hokan Bjornstrom Steffanson, 1883-1962, the Swedish-American industrialist and financier.

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Columbia University
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Laurence Edmund Allen

Citation
For his stories of the activities of the British Mediterranean Fleet, written as an accredited correspondent attached to the fleet.
Tags: 1942
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Associated Press

Stanton Delaplane

Citation
For his articles on the movement of several California and Oregon counties to secede to form a forty ninth state.
Tags: 1942
Categories: Reporting
Publication
San Francisco Chronicle

Los Angeles Times

Citation
For its successful campaign which resulted in the clarification and confirmation for all American newspapers of the right of free press as guaranteed under the Constitution.
Tags: 1942
Categories: Public Service
Publication
Los Angeles Times