Nobel Nuggets, Part III

This week, I have been doling out nuggets about the Nobel Peace Prize — subject of a book I now have on the market. For Parts I and II, go here and here.

Thought I’d begin today by telling you a little something about Nicholas Murray Butler, the president of Columbia University for almost the entire first half of the 20th century: 1901 to 1945. His friend Theodore Roosevelt dubbed him “Nicholas Miraculous.” Butler won the peace prize in 1931 (sharing it with Jane Addams).

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