Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...religious funeral in a Westchester chapel went: former Governor Philip F. La Follette (who flew from Wisconsin to speak an informal funeral oration) ; Indiana's onetime Governor James Putnam Goodrich; Madame Secretary of Labor Perkins; Mrs. Ogden Reid of the New York Herald Tribune; Writers Stuart Chase, John Gunther and Louis Adamic, Editor Freda Kirchwey of the Nation; Federal Judge Thomas D. Thacher, one time President of the New York City Bar Association; Banker John Hertz Sr. of Lehman Bros.; President Samuel Zemurray of United Fruit ; President Floyd Bostwick Odium of Atlas Corp., monster investment trust in which Alex...
Married. George Palmer Putnam, 51, publicity-loving publisher; and Mrs. Jean-Marie Consigny James; in Boulder City, Nev. Publisher Putnam's second wife, famed Flier Amelia Earhart, vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. His first wife divorced...
Henry William Putnam Jr. grubbed away in the same office, without changing the furniture, for another 40 years. Tall, blond and solitary, he had only two hobbies besides making money-yachts and Shakespeare. One of his few friends was another student of Shakespeare, Gene Tunney...
...Henry Putnam Jr. tripled his father's fortune, came at last to old age and the problem of how to dispose of the gains from 60 years of grubbing by one of the cagiest father-son money-making teams in U. S. history. A bachelor, Henry Putnam Jr. consulted no one, cocked his feet on his old desk, wrote a will. Last year he died. Last week it became known that after specific bequests to hospitals and other charities, he left the bulk of his estate, $8,000,000, to four female cousins, all over 70; that, although...
Publisher George Palmer Putnam, who loves publicity, last week got plenty. He has lately published a fantastic thriller (The Man Who Killed Hitler) which, he reported, brought him numerous anonymous threats. Last week somebody went too far. Found trussed and gagged 100 miles from his North Hollywood home, Mr. Putnam mystified police with a tale of kidnapping by Nazis: "The two men conversed with each other in German. . . . One of them asked who furnished the information for the book. . . . I told them I didn't know...