Painting Rejected
New York … Paul Cadmus (above), CWA artist whose painting "The Fleet's In," showing drunken sailors on shore leave, was rejected by Secretary of the Navy Navy as "not being, true to the navy."
The Roanoke Rapids Herald. May 3, 1934. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.>
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