Pulitzer Awards and graft trials span across 1930s era
The article recounts Pulitzer prizes awarded for journalism and arts along with a lengthy account of Iowa graft investigations. It notes juries selecting winners and names numerous jurors and trustees. It details grand juries in 1935 1936 and high court actions involving Gov. Herring O Connor Duckworth Maley Harrison and others in gambling and obstruction cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Butler
Carl W. Ackerman
School of Journalism
Julian S. Harris
The
Chattanooga Times
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
Harold S. Pollard
New York World-Telegram
Arthur M. Howe
Brooklyn Eagle
Frank R
Herald Tribune
William Lyon Phelps
Yale University
Padraic Colum
Henry Seidel Canby
Royal Cortisson
Richard Burton
Bliss Perry
Harvard
Leonard Bacon
O’connor
Leo J. Wegman
Wegman
High Court
Maley
Herring
Polk County Grand Jury
Des Moines
Gov. Herring
Nels Kraschel
Frank Comfort
E. J. Feuling
Woodbury County
State Executive Council
Grand Jury
Af O'Connor
Duckworth
Havner
Peters
Supreme Court
Harrison
Joe Gagen
C. W. McNaughton
T. B
H.C. Scott
C. E. Stevens
J. E. Brennan
Jack Worden
Bill Tax
Pulitzer prize confusion sparks public service award remark
Maley comments on Supreme Court action clearing him and faults a Pulitzer selection. He says the prize for best play went to Robert Sherwood's Idiot's Delight and claims the committee mixed it up with The Gazette's activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Maley
Pulitzer Committee
Robert Sherwood
The
Gazette
Graft Indictments Ruled Invalid by Iowa Supreme Court
Sioux City and Des Moines reports show the Iowa Supreme Court quashed the graft indictments. Rawlings contends unqualified prosecutors appeared before the grand jury while Havner faced accusations of private payoffs linked to Cedar Rapids editor Verne Marshall. City officers Luke Diebert Kerr faced renewed questions as the ruling prompts possible reinstatement and back pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maley
Salinger
H. M. Havner
Verne Marshall
Cedar Rapids
Havner
Marshall
M. E. Rawlings
Woodbury County
Sioux City
Supreme Court
Chris N. Dahl
Nile V. Luke
John Diebert
Kirby Kerr
Luke
Kerr
Bert Welch
Welch
Diebert
Sam Stevens
Robert Gibeau
Moville
Rawlings
High Court
Des Moines
Walter Maley
Iowa
The
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Pulitzer Winners Highlight Historic Local Government Probes
A survey of early Pulitzer Prize journalism shows 1931 to 1935 awards recognizing exposes of city corruption, waste, veterans relief, real estate schemes, and political unscrupulousness across several papers from Atlanta, Indianapolis, New York, Medford, and Sacramento, with focused state and county impacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Atlanta, Ga
Constitution
Indianapolis News
New York World-Telegram
Veterans’ Relief
McKee
Medford
Ore
Mail-Tribune
Jackson County
Sacramento
Calif
Bee
Federal Judiciary
Nevada
Cedar Rapids Couples Obtain Marriage Licenses
Frank L. Sullivan and Wilma L. Ladage, both of Cedar Rapids. Henry Gardner and Leola Miner, both of Cedar Rapids. George James Shearer and Helen Louise Mumma, both of Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank L. Sullivan
Wilma L. Ladage
Cedar Rapids
Henry Gardner
Leola Miner
George James Shearer
Helen Louise Mumma
100 Hour Endurance Drive Starts Under Pontiac
Ed Clark a Pontiac endurance driver and wife Mildred begin a 100 hour test in a stock two door Pontiac from Second avenue and Second street SE at 11 am Tuesday ending 3 pm Saturday. The run backed by Unzeilig Motor Company includes sealed car engine gear and fuel system with nurses aboard and no refueling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Clark
Mildred
Second Avenue
Second Street
Unzeilig Motor Company
Clark
Iowa
Milo Reno Dies of Heart Attack
Milo Reno, a noted farmer leader, suffered a fatal heart attack. He had long criticized the New Deal, urging price fixing and cost of production as farm remedies. He bitterly opposed Roosevelt and Henry Wallace over policy and condemned the administration as he warned of constitutional wreckage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milo Reno
New Deal
AAA
Roosevelt
Henry Wallace
New York State
Springfield
Ill
Milo Reno Leads Farm Strikes to Prominence in 1932
In Des Moines Milo Reno rose to national prominence as the leader of the farm strikes of 1932 and 1933 amid overturned milk cans, torches, and farm picket lines across several states. He emerged during the era of widespread forced farm sales and auctioneers hammering many farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Milo Reno
Reno
AP Asks Supreme Court To Back Ban On News Piracy
The Associated Press urges the Supreme Court to uphold an injunction preventing KVOS of Bellingham Washington from broadcasting AP news until eighteen hours after publication. The station argues for a court review, while AP contends it pilfers dispatches from Seattle papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jay G. Hayden
The
Detroit
Mich
James A. Mills
Associated Press
Standard Oil Company
A. P
Supreme Court
KVOS
Bellingham
Wash
the Press Association
John W. Davis
New York
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Times
Bellingham Herald
Davis
Alchy Seized At Prochaska's Home
Federal agents and local deputies raided the residence of John Prochaska Jr at 2007 K Street SW and found a pint bottle of alcohol in a dresser. The team included Ed Miller R H Taylor Tom Condon William Kudina and Dick Payn. The case was turned over to the county attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Prochaska, Jr
K Street
Ed Miller
R. H. Taylor
Tom Condon
William Kudina
Dick Payn
Praying Bandit Gets 10 Year Sentence in Highway Robbery
Perry Griffin was sentenced in Harrisonville Missouri to ten years for highway robbery after pleading guilty. Madge Copeland his sister in law faces a similar charge with sentencing set for Wednesday. Both admitted car theft and other robberies after abducting LeRoy Allery from Missouri Valley College, then breaking jail before recapture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creston
Perry E. Griffin
Jefferson City
Perry Griffin
Harrisonville
Madge Copeland
Griffin
Leslie A. Bruce
Bruce
Miss Copeland
LeRoy Allery
Missouri Valley College
W. S. Copeland
Kansas City
Copeland
Oscar Hartzell Hospitalized for Treatment and Observation
Oscar M Hartzell, convicted operator of the Drake estate swindle, is in the federal hospital for delinquents for treatment and observation. He was moved from Leavenworth federal penitentiary to the Springfield facility, where he awaits further proceedings on his mail fraud case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Oscar M.hartzell
Federal Hospital
Hartzell
Leavenworth
Kan
Seattle Man Claims 70 Cents For Damaged Trousers
Robert H. Scott filed a claim against Seattle for 70 cents saying a nail in a street car seat damaged one pair of used trousers. The itemized damages include 18 cents for materials and 57 cents for time spent in seclusion during repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Robert H. Scott
Scott
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pulitzer
Columbia Journalism School
Europe
Levellon Brown
Providence
R. I
Helen Beal
Delaware
Louis H. Birnbaum
Cleveland
John A. McWethy
Aurora
Philip D. Taylor
Bloomington
Ind
Jr McClintie Mitchell
Fayette
America
Samuel Barber
National Academy of Design
Sigmund Kozlow
Maspeth
N. Y
Farmers Holiday Association
Ohio
Texas
Alchy
Prochaska
Fiosiery
Killian Co
Killian Company
Praying Bandit
Kenwood
Kenwoods
Oscar Hartzell
Killian
Kleinert
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