Word: putnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Butler, then a law student, heard about the glass plates with Russian writing in a casual conversation with former associate librarian Phillip A. Putnam. Putnam looked for the plates, but could not find them. He assumed they had been lost during World...
...SMITH : HERO OF THE CITIES by Matthew and Hannah Josephson. 505 pages. Houghfon Mifflin. $7.95. THE FIRST HURRAH: A BIOGRAPHY OF ALFRED E. SMITH by Richard O'Connor. 318 pages. Putnam. $6.95. In nostalgic political memory, Alfred Emanuel Smith appears as a jaunty, cigar-chomping, roughhewn Irishman in a brown derby, the first serious Roman Catholic candidate for President, and the man who later turned on his aptest pupil, Franklin Roosevelt, to become a noisy opponent of the New Deal. All that is true as far as it goes-except that Smith was no more than half Irish...
...meeting of the American Philosophical Association's eastern division in Manhattan, Harvard Professor Hilary Putnam presented a resolution calling for immediate U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam and condemning American foreign policy as an instrument for economic exploitation. He was hissed. Said Professor Aron Gurwitsch of the New School for Social Research, a refugee from Nazi Germany: "The problem before us is whether a professional and scholarly association does not become unfaithful to its destiny, to its logic, by taking a stand on political questions. It would mean the beginning of complete politicization of our organization and of all spheres...
...Faculty did not have time yesterday to discuss a resolution of opposition to the Cambridge Project which had been placed on the docket by Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy. That resolution, which the Faculty will take up on February 10, says "that it is the sense of the Faculty that no member of the Harvard community should... have any connection to Project Cambridge...
According to Putnam, this resolution would have no binding effect on individual participation in the Cambridge Project, but "would be a clear statement of the Faculty's attitude toward research of this kind...