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The Canton, Ohio, Daily News won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1927. The award was given for "its brave, patriotic and effective fight for the ending of a vicious state of affairs brought about by collusion between city authorities and the criminal element, a fight which had a tragic result in the assassination of the editor of the paper, Mr. Don R. Mellett."
First Prize - 1927 was released on: USA: 27 March 1927
Henri Bergson won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927.
Heinrich Otto Wieland won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1927.
Arthur Holly Compton won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927.
Bagutta Prize was created in 1927.
Julius Wagner-Jauregg won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1927 was awarded jointly to Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde
The cast of First Prize - 1927 includes: Phil Dunham as Phil Toy Gallagher as Toy
There were only three Pulitzer Prize awards given for Journalism (not counting Editorial Cartoons) in 1927.The only newspaper article mentioned by name was an Editorial written by F. Lauriston Bullard of the Boston Heraldentitled, "We Submit."The Canton Daily News (Ohio) won the prestigious Public Service Award that year for "its brave, patriotic and effective fight for the ending of a vicious state of affairs brought about by collusion between city authorities and the criminal element, a fight which had a tragic result in the assassination of the editor of the paper, Mr. Don R. Mellett."John T. Rogers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch won a Pulitzer Prize in Reporting for "the inquiry leading to the impeachment of Judge George W. English of the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Illinois."
In 1927, Sidney Kingsley (born Kirschner) became the youngest playwright to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama at age 27 for his three-act play, Men in White.The five youngest Pulitzer Prize winners in Drama:Sidney Kingsley, 1934, age 27Beth Henley, 1981, age 29David Auburn, 2001, age 31Eugene O'Neill, 1920, age 32William Saroyan, 1940, age 32
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1927 was awarded to Heinrich Wieland for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids and related substances.