Word: putnam
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Died. Hamilton Holt, 78, from 1925 to 1949 president of Florida's Rollins College (see EDUCATION), onetime editor and owner of the weekly Independent, now defunct; of a heart attack; in Putnam, Conn. At Rollins, Brooklyn-born President Holt abolished lectures, substituted group discussions, credited originality as much as "A" grades, allowed students to determine their own direction and rate of progress. On the side, he stumped the country in support of the League of Nations, later espoused such lesser causes as simplified spelling ("thru") and the Eighteenth Amendment, ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. senate and the Connecticut legislature...
Feeney refuses to allow Cambridge Building Commissioner Stephen F. Spenger to inspect his home at 990 Putnam Avenue. He says that a complaint to Spencer that he is an excommunicated rest is a lie, and that the "sacred privacy of the home' is being invaded as part of a "malicious persecution' instituted by Archbishop Cushing...
...Well, you won't get it," Putnam replied. Donlan went on, "You're just trying to pull a red herring across this Committee's path. Why are you up here if you don't know whether you're for this bill or not? Or are you doing this just as a front? I DON'T LIKE THESE SLURRING REMARKS...
Representative Good, another Committee member asked Putnam to define the term Witch-hunt...
...expert on that," replied Putnam. "My family was involved in the Salem witch-hunts. One of my ancestors, on my father's side, was the attorney who broke them...