Word: cosslet
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Putnam had three sons, most famed of whom was the late patriarchal Major George Haven Putnam whose anecdotes included his imprisonment by the rebels during the Civil War. When Major Putnam died last winter his stock in the firm, which did not constitute control, passed to his son, Palmer Cosslet Putnam, 30, a geologist. Returning to the U. S. recently from Africa, Palmer Cosslet Putnam inspected the firm of his father and grandfather. What its earnings were only a few intimates know, but publishers would be surprised if recent Putnam profits have been tremendous. President has been Irving Putnam...
...stock) has published John Dewey's The Quest for Certainty and Alice Grant Rosman's present big-selling The Young and Secret. Minton, Balch & Co., Inc. for the immediate future at least, will be run as a separate department, "benefiting from the wide Putnam scope. Palmer Cosslet Putnam's new partners are Melville Minton. 45. a big-chested, hardworking salesman with a business head; and Earle Balch, 36, the curly-headed, smiling, amiable, pianoplaying, song-singing, artistic half of the combination, the one who gives the tea parties to the authors while Partner Minton...
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