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National Air Races

In 1920 publisher Ralph Pulitzer sponsored the Pulitzer Trophy Race and the Pulitzer Speed Trophy for military airplanes at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, in an effort to publicize aviation and his newspaper.

Ralph Pulitzer

He had retired as publisher of the New York World a year before the paper's acquisition by E. W. Scripps Company, owner of The New York Telegram.

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Upon his father's death in October 1911, he become president of the Press Publishing Company, which published the New York World and the Evening World.

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