Potash & Perlmutter

Abe Potash has just paid $150 to end a partnership—and swears he would turn down Andrew Carnegie himself as a partner. Then his broker arrives with a new proposition.

In the brisk, bargaining world of New York’s cloak-and-suit trade, Abe has had enough: his former partner, he says, knew more about auction pinochle and taking customers to the theatre than hard work. Philip Noblestone, the broker, thinks he has found just the man Abe needs: a seasoned cutter and designer with $5,000 behind him, but no gift for selling. Abe has opinions about the man’s backers, Noblestone has opinions about Abe, and neither is shy about sharing them. In Montague Glass’s comic portrait of immigrant business life, money, reputation and partnership schemes are all up for debate. Can Abe really keep doing business alone?

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