Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College men should begin right now to stop drinking and free themselves from this drug," said Mrs. Doris Putnam of the Women's Christian Temperance Union yesterday. "They are our future draftees and we are fighting now to teach the boys in camps the dangers of being drunk while they hold military secrets...
Stressing the fact that an army is not fit for marching or fighting while it is still in the grip of the drinking habit, Mrs. Putnam, pointed out that the Union was trying to educates the boys with modern, interesting advice...
...principal task of the Temperance Union now is to create favorable sympathy for the Sheppard Bill, now before Congress, to prohibit prostitution and drinking in and around training centers. Draftees, away from their families for the first time, are often initiated into Army circles with a good drunk, Mrs. Putnam said...
...When we arrived here, we were given good beds to sleep in and are well fed. . . . I am sending this message to my wife and friends. So long, Joe. I am alive and well and I am as happy as I can be, without you" (Major Paul A. Putnam, Marines...
...Coronado, Calif., Major Putnam's wife, Virginia, guessed that if the message were authentic the listening post had mis-caught "Joe" for "Ginna...