For its fifteen-year investigation of judicial practices in the United States District Court for the middle district of Pennsylvania, resulting in removal of the District Judge and indictment of many others.

Commissioned by the Alice M Ditson Fund, first performed by the Schola Cantorum in New York, April 1945.

For a group of editorials published during the year 1945 on the subject of racial, religious and economic intolerance, as exemplified by the editorial "Go for Broke."

For "Time to Bridge That Gulch."

For distinguished correspondence during the year 1945, as exemplified by his reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina