Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would give their citizens a visual idea of the bloody horror of actual combat and thus build up a mass repugnance to fighting. That the U. S., for all its diplomatic efforts towards peace, is no exception to this fundamental military rule was revealed last week when George Palmer Putnam, Manhattan publisher, tried unsuccessfully to get the War Department's permission to print some of its Signal Corps photographs other than those glorifying...
...pacifist himself, Publisher Putnam served as a lieutenant of field artillery during the War. He helped the American Legion start its weekly in 1919. Lately he has been collecting for publication in book form pictures of the War's gory realities. Many of them came from private collections. Some were bootlegged out of Government archives. All are authentic, horrible. Last week Mr. Putnam went to Washington where he requested Major General Irving Joseph Carr, chief of the Army's Signal Corps, to open its files to his publishing venture. General Carr refused to release a single "horrible" photograph. His reason...
...completed: though it is conveniently near the Yard, its surroundings are noisy and comparatively unattractive. Only one of its dormitories is modern, and the rooms incline to be dingy. Long, long before its six neighbors put in their mushroom-like appearance Adams House was there. Colonial Apthorp sheltered General Putnam; the captured Burgoyne lived in it when it were only a few of the forty coats of paint which the interior decorators removed in 1930. Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall rose when thick walls and Germanic gloom were the order of the day in architecture. To these has been added...
...UPHEAVAL-Olga Worninoff-Putnam...
Graduation will this spring deprive Coach Stubbs of all his biggest men, with the exception of Saltonstall. Baldwin and Putnam are both experienced puck-carriers and the former, especially, knows the art of shooting the rubber to the right place when an empty enemy cage looms. Adding Martin to the list of exceptions, it can be said that no other members of the present squad give much promise of approaching the play of Wood, Cunningham, and McGregor. Unless unusual talent comes up from this year's Freshman sextet, this year's record may prove difficult to equal...