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Atlas Utilities at present is a holding company, controlling 16 investment trusts. Whether or not young (39) President Floyd Bostwick Odium expects to merge them eventually is not known. It is very likely that he himself has not yet decided. Last week, proud as can be of his growing Atlas, he said: "From the beginning it has been absolutely independent. It has kept itself free from all alliances or affiliations as a matter of considered policy. Because of this, it has been slower in working out its destiny than otherwise. . . . But it has at least trod on firmer ground...
...lineup of the Blue team, composed mainly of ice hockey stars, was as follows: Winter, Iglehart, Bostwick, Wilmording, Phipps, Clarke, Gambel, Knott, and Smith. Although not particularly rough, the contest was marked by a number of hard falls...
...Columbus judge, Homer Z. Bostwick, 55 and married, had given a $2,300 diamond ring, an automobile and other presents to one Opal Walker, 24. When Opal Walker married another man, Judge Bostwick demanded back his gifts. Opal Walker refused to surrender them, whereupon Judge Bostwick extorted them by having her threatened with imprisonment for perjury because of a technical flaw in her marriage license. The Citizen dug up the story, opened fire on Judge Bostwick. circulated a petition, brought him to trial. The judge's ally, Publisher Harry Preston Wolfe's Columbus Dispatch, accused the Citizen...
...Citizen hired Lawyer Newton Diehl Baker of Cleveland to prosecute the complaint against Judge Bostwick before three nonresident judges. As the case drew to a close last week it crowded nearly all other news off the Citizen's front pages. Lawyer Baker's summation was printed in full for more than eight columns. Then came the verdict of "guilty." The Citizen, and all Scripps-Howard, crowed proudly. The headline of a typical S-H Little-Dramas advertisement began to suggest itself, something like: "The Judge Who Gave Like an Indian...
Only a fortnight ago Atlas Utilities Corp., investment trust headed by astute Floyd Bostwick Odium, 39, set Wall Street talking by its sudden acquisition of $9,000,000 Ungerleider Financial Corp. and $20,000,000 Sterling Securities Corp. (TIME, Aug. 17). Last week Atlas made its twelfth purchase since June last year, one bigger than any of the others. This buy was control of Chatham Phenix Allied Corp., formed in September 1929, by the securities affiliate of $326,000,000-in- resources Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co., Manhattan...