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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1921
Page
8
The Boston Post receives the Pulitzer $500 gold medal and is showered with laudatory tributes from three leading contemporaries. The remarks emphasize deep editorial appreciation and priceless sentiment for the honor.
Richard Grozier’s son Richard Grazier led the Boston Post’s Ponzi exposure, the Pulitzer Foundation citing the 1920 public service. With editors away, Grazier steered a risky campaign showing Ponzi’s fraud, leading to arrest and insolvency.
The Joseph Pulitzer foundation and the Boston Post praised Richard Grazier for his editorial courage and bold news feature that earned the Pulitzer Gold Medal, with the Winchester Star noting the distinguished journalistic judgment behind the success.
The note spotlights summer fabrics and a Fourth Floor waiting room with ample chairs. It promotes middy outfits for Graduation Exercises in jean cloth crepe de chine or satin, with services from a Children’s Barber Shop to sun protection awnings on the Sixth Floor Annex. It also features a French Gown Room, corset fittings by expert corsetières, an art instructor for parchment lamp shades, and a reminder to read the ads to stay in touch with ongoing offerings.
The Joseph Pulitzer Foundation awards the gold medal to the Boston Post for exposing the Ponzi scheme in 1920. Richard Grazier led the newspaper’s landmark investigation during a period when editors were away, risking legal danger to the paper and its readers.
James Baker of New York posted 2500 bail on a larceny charge in Municipal Court before Judge Murray. Globe Felt Slipper Co. head Max Fink was fined 5 for contempt when he arrived late after promising to come, with the judge admonishing that no business excuse the court’s duties.
Funeral services for Thomas W. Lawton a South Boston World War veteran killed in France will be held at St Monica s Church Dorchester street at 9 o clock this morning A solemn high mass will be celebrated Lawton s body arrived in South Boston yesterday and was escorted to the Columbia Post American Legion by post members The body remains in state at the post until funeral time Lawton belonged to B Company 102d Machine Gun Battalion
Special Attorney-General Henry F. Hurlburt and Assistant Attorney-General Cabot refuse to disclose owners or buyers of cars cited in the Supreme Court disbarment petition against George T. Perry of Somerville. The filing shows 14 Ford cars 11 Buicks and several other makes involved. Names withheld as those individuals are expected witnesses at the hearing.
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