Word: putnam
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William Hope Harvey was born in what is now Putnam County. West Virginia. He practiced law in Chicago, moved to Denver, mined silver, made money, listened to debates on the silver question. No economist, he published in 1894 a pamphlet called "Coin's Financial School," in which "Professor Coin" held a series of imaginary interviews with leading bankers, farmers, editors, on free silver coinage as a political cureall. "Professor Coin's" financial sophistries were made to defeat and convince all-comers. Within a year Harvey had sold 1,000,000 copies of his pamphlet to debt-ridden farmers...
BEGINNERS LUCK ? Emily Hahn ? Brewer, Warren & Putnam...
KNOW POSITIVELY GILBERT DID NOT WRITE MIRRORS OF THIRTY TWO [TIME, July 20] STOP BELIEVE GEORGE PUTNAM...
Clinton Wallace Gilbert denies authorship of Mirrors of 1932, is reported vexed at whatever person "stole" his "Mirrors" title. Publisher George Palmer Putnam noncommittally says he "fathered" Mirrors of 1932 (also Mirrors of Washington), declines to reveal the "mother...
...West Virginia last week two renegade strikers, about to enter a mine in Putnam County, were killed by rifle fire...