Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week the New York Times triple-column-headed a cablegram from Manhattan publisher George Palmer Putnam who had just discovered the secret of Professor Marvin's death while visiting Whale Sound in North Greenland. Times readers, well schooled to palpitate at Arctic news by the Times elaborate accounts of the Byrd and the Norge polar flights (TIME, May 17 and 24), were roused to a dignified excitement...
Lawyer Thompson's second item was a broadside against the U. S. Department of Justice. He linked the Sacco and Vanzetti case with the 1920 anti-Red drive of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, produced ex-Government agents who swore that conviction for murder was simply "one way of disposing of them," that there were files of evidence which the Department of Justice refused to reveal. Lawyer Thompson burst ihto flames...
...within 72 hours transferred from the Alien Property Custodian's custody to the Societe Suisse pour Valeurs de Metaux, This $7,000,000 constituted the German-owned stock (49%) of the American Metal Co. which was held, after seizure, by Alien Property Custodian A. Mitchell Palmer as "trustee." The stock was seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act passed in 1917, which provided that the President should appoint an Alien Property Custodian to hold property in this country owned by citizens of enemy countries. Likewise the Custodian was empowered to sell any of this property at public auction...
...Whether or not former custodian Thomas W. Miller (who succeeded Mr. Palmer as Alien Property Custodian) and former Attorney General Daugherty conspired to receive a portion of the $441,000 as a bribe, not simply as a fee. "Conspiracy" must be proved...
Putnam. Publisher George Palmer Putnam of Manhattan, with his small son David Binney Putnam; Art Young, archer; Carl Dunrud, cowboy; Dan Streeter, author; Capt. Bob Bartlett, Explorer Peary's onetime skipper; Knud Rasmussen, explorer; and naturalists from the American Museum of Natural History, have been cruising Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, off Greenland, in constant radio communication with the New York Times. Many a description of Arctic weather effects has been received, couched in Publisher Putnam's best editorial verbiage. Walrus, seals, narwhal and varied seafowl have fallen to the voyagers' trusty guns, a high moment coming...