1955 | The Pulitzer Prizes

Roland Kenneth Towery

Citation

For his series of articles exclusively exposing a scandal in the administration of the Veterans' Land Program in Texas. This 32-year-old World War II veteran, a former prisoner of the Japanese, made these irregularities a state-wide and subsequently a national issue, and stimulated state action to rectify conditions in the land program.

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Categories: Local Reporting - No edition time

Publication

Cuero (TX) Record

Mrs. Caro Brown

Citation

For a series of news stories dealing with the successful attack on one-man political rule in neighboring Duval County, written under unusual pressure both of edition time and difficult, even dangerous, circumstances. Mrs. Brown dug into the facts behind the dramatic daily events, as well, and obtained her stories in spite of the bitterest political opposition, showing professional skill and courage.

Tags: 1955

Categories: Local Reporting - Edition time

Publication

Alice (TX) Daily Echo

Joseph Pulitzer II

Job title

publisher

First name

Joseph II

Last name

Pulitzer

Years

Employer

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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0 (Chair)

Stuart H. Perry

Job title

editor and publisher

First name

Stuart H.

Last name

Perry

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Stuart H. Perry (1874-1957) was a newspaper publisher and authority on meteorites. He made extensive collections of meteorites and donated many specimens to the United States National Museum (USNM). In 1940, Perry became an Honorary Associate in Mineralogy, USNM, a title he held until his death.

Employer

The Adrian (Mich.) Telegram

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William R. Mathews

Job title

owner

First name

William R.

Last name

Mathews

Location

Tucson

Years

Employer

The Arizona Daily Star

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Benjamin M. McKelway

Job title

vice president and editor

First name

Benjamin H.

Last name

McKelway

Years

(Courtesy of NCPedia)

McKelway, Benjamin Mosby

By Betty J. Brandon, 1991

2 Oct. 1895–30 Aug. 1976

Employer

The Washington (DC) Evening Star

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John S. Knight

Job title

editorial chairman

First name

John S.

Last name

Knight

Location

Detroit, MI

Years

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

A Writer and a Businessman

By Deirdre Carmody

June 17, 1981

Employer

Knight Newspapers, Inc.

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Grayson Kirk

Job title

president

First name

Grayson

Last name

Kirk

Location

New York, NY

Years

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Grayson Kirk, 94, President of Columbia During the 1968 Student Protests, Is Dead

By Karen W. Arenson

November 22, 1997

Grayson Louis Kirk, the scholarly president of Columbia University whose ill-fated decision in the spring of 1968 to turn 1,000 police officers in riot gear against student protesters became an emblem of the generational conflict characterizing the Vietnam War era, died early yesterday morning.

He was 94 and died in his sleep at his home in Bronxville, N.Y., his son, John G. Kirk, said.

Employer

Columbia University

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John Hohenberg

Job title

executive secretary, The Pulitzer Prizes

First name

John

Last name

Hohenberg

Years

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

John Hohenberg, 94, Former Pulitzer Prize Official, Dies

By Douglas Martin

August 8, 2000

John Hohenberg, who began his journalism career as a teenager by snatching an interview with the president of the United States and went on to become administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, died Sunday morning at his home in Knoxville, Tenn. He was 94.

Employer

Columbia University

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