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George William Bliss

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Name
  
George Bliss

Role
  
Journalist

Died
  
September 11, 1978


Awards
  
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

George Bliss (July 21, 1918 - Sept. 11, 1978) was an American journalist. He won a 1962 Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for the Chicago Tribune and was associated with two others:

  • 1962: corruption at the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago.
  • 1973: For uncovering flagrant violations of voting procedures in the primary election of March 21, 1972
  • 1976: waste and fraud at mortgage firms related to Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance

    • In a 1974 article about Linda Taylor, a notorious con artist, Bliss apparently coined the term welfare queen.

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