No. U. S. newspaper under scrutiny by the Pulitzer Prize Committee rendered a public service in 1929 sufficiently disinterested and meritorious to deserve a gold medal. Not that newspapers did not crusade. The New York World, for example, crusaded against corruption in bankruptcy courts. The New York Evening Post exposed in Germany the forgery of documents involving Senator Borah in Soviet bribery. But the prize committee (names withheld) were either unimpressed or unable to agree. No reason was given for the no-award. Nor was there a...
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