| Year | Name(s) | Publication | Rationale |
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| 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 theGerman Empire.'" |
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| 1918 | Harold A. Littledale | New York Post | "for a series of articles exposing abuses in and leading to the reform of theNew Jersey State Prison." |
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| 1919 | No award |
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| 1920 | John J. Leary Jr. | New York World | "for the series of articles written during thenational coal strike in the winter of 1919." |
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| 1921 | Louis Seibold | New York World | "for aninterview withPresident Wilson."[a] |
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| 1922 | Kirke Simpson | Associated Press | "for articles on the burial of 'The Unknown Soldier'." |
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| 1923 | Alva Johnston | The New York Times | "for his reports of the proceedings of the convention of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science held inCambridge, Massachusetts in December 1922." |
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| 1924 | Magner White | San Diego Sun | "forhis story of theeclipse of the sun." |
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| 1925 | Alvin Goldstein | Chicago Daily News | "for their service toward the solution of the murder of Robert Franks Jr., inChicago on May 22, 1924, and the bringing to justice ofNathan F. Leopold and Richard Loeb." |
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| James Mulroy |
| 1926 | William Burke Miller | Courier Journal | "for his work in connection with the story of the trapping inSand Cave,Kentucky, ofFloyd Collins." |
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| 1927 | John Rogers | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | "for the inquiry leading to theimpeachment of JudgeGeorge W. English of theUnited States Court for the Eastern District of Illinois." |
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| 1928 | No award |
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| 1929 | Paul Y. Anderson | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | "for his highly effective work in bringing to light a situation which resulted in revealing the disposition ofliberty bonds purchased and distributed by the Continental Trading Company in connection withnaval oil leases." |
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| 1930 | Russell Owen | The New York Times | "for his reports by radio of theByrd Antarctic Expedition." |
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| 1931 | A. B. MacDonald | The Kansas City Star | "for his work in connection with a murder inAmarillo, Texas." |
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| 1932 | D. D. Martin | Detroit Free Press | "for theiraccount of the parade of theAmerican Legion during the 1931 convention inDetroit." |
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| J. S. Pooler |
| W. C. Richards |
| J. N. W. Sloan |
| F. D. Webb |
| 1933 | Francis Jamieson | Associated Press | "for his prompt, full, skillful and prolonged coverage of news of thekidnapping of the infant son ofCharles Lindbergh on March 1, 1932 from the first announcement of the kidnapping until after the discovery of the baby's body nearby theLindbergh home on May 12." |
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| 1934 | Royce Brier | San Francisco Chronicle | "for hisaccount of thelynching of the kidnappers, John M. Holmes and Thomas H. Thurmond inSan Jose, California. On November 26, 1933 after they had been jailed for abducting Brooke Hart, a merchant's son." |
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| 1935 | William Taylor | New York Herald Tribune | "for the series of articles on theinternational yacht races." |
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| 1936 | Lauren D. Lyman | The New York Times | "for the exclusive story revealing that theCharles Lindbergh family was leaving the United States to live in England."[2] |
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| 1937 | Howard W. Blakeslee | Associated Press | "for their coverage of science at thetercentenary ofHarvard University." |
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| David Dietz | Scripps-Howard Newspapers |
| Gobind Behari Lal | Universal Service |
| William L. Laurence | The New York Times |
| John O'Neill | New York Herald Tribune |
| 1938 | Ray Sprigle | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | "for his series of articles, supported by photostats of the essential documents, exposing the one-time membership of Mr. JusticeHugo Black in theKu Klux Klan." |
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| 1939 | Thomas Lunsford Stokes | Scripps-Howard Newspapers | "for his series of articles on alleged intimidation of workers for theWorks Progress Administration in Pennsylvania and Kentucky during an election. The articles were published in theNew York World-Telegram." |
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| 1940 | Burton Heath | New York World-Telegram | "for his expose of the frauds perpetrated by federal JudgeMartin T. Manton, who resigned and was tried and imprisoned." |
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| 1941 | Westbrook Pegler | New York World-Telegram | "for his articles on scandals in the ranks of organized labor, which led to the exposure and conviction ofGeorge Scalise, a laborracketeer." |
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| 1942 | Stanton Delaplane | San Francisco Chronicle | "for his articles on themovement of several California and Oregon counties to secede to form a forty-ninth state." |
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| 1943 | George Weller | Chicago Daily News | "for hisgraphic story of how a U.S. Navypharmacist's mate under enemy waters in a submarineperformed an operation for appendicitis saving a sailor's life."[3] |
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| 1944 | Paul Schoenstein | New York Journal-American | "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 obtainingpenicillin." |
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| Staff |
| 1945 | Jack McDowell | The San Francisco Call | "for his campaign to encourage blood donations." |
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| 1946 | William L. Laurence | The New York Times | "for his eye-witness account of theatom-bombing of Nagasaki and his subsequent ten articles on the development, production, and significance of theatomic bomb." |
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| 1947 | Frederick Woltman | New York World-Telegram | "for his articles during 1946 on the infiltration of Communism in the United States." |
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