1917:Herbert Bayard Swope, New York World, for articles which appeared October 10, October 15 and from November 4 daily to November 22, 1916, inclusive, entitled, "Inside the German Empire".
New York Evening Post, for a series of articles exposing abuses in and leading to the reform of the New Jersey State prison
1929:Paul Y. Anderson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch For his highly effective work in bringing to light a situation which resulted in revealing the disposition of Liberty Bonds purchased and distributed by the Continental Trading Company in connection with naval oil leases.
1933: Francis A. Jamieson of Associated Press for his prompt, full, skillful and prolonged coverage of news of the kidnapping of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh on March 1, 1932, from the first announcement of the kidnapping until after the discovery of the baby's body nearby the Lindbergh home on May 12.
Brooke Hart
, a merchant's son.
1935: William Taylor of the New York Herald Tribune for the series of articles on the international yacht races.
Raymond Sprigle of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for his series of articles, supported by photostats of the essential documents, exposing the one-time membership of Mr. Justice Hugo Black in the Ku Klux Klan
.
The New York World-Telegram
.
Martin T. Manton
, who resigned and was tried and imprisoned.
racketeer
.
State of Jefferson
, the movement of several California and Oregon counties to secede to form a forty-ninth state.
For a news story published on August 12, 1943, which saved the life of a two-year-old girl in the Lutheran Hospital of New York City by obtaining penicillin.