For the best editorial article written during the year, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning and power to influence public opinion in the right direction, due account being taken of the whole volume of the writer’s editorial work during the year, $500.
Fremont (NE) Tribune, by Charles S. Ryckman
For the editorial entitled "The Gentleman from Nebraska."
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Winners in Editorial Writing
Louis Isaac Jaffe
For his editorial entitled "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery," which is typical of a series of articles written on the lynching evil and in successful advocacy of legislation to prevent it.
Grover Cleveland Hall
For his editorials against gangsterism, floggings and racial and religious intolerance.
F. Lauriston Bullard
For the editorial entitled, "We Submit."
1931 Prize Winners
H. R. Knickerbocker
For a series of articles on the practical operation of the Five Year Plan in Russia.
Edmund Duffy
For "An Old Struggle Still Going On."