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With his horn-rim spectacles and pendant forelock, Floyd Odium looks like a hardworking young bank clerk. But the long, sharp face and steady gaze are those of a canny trader. Few can match Floyd Odium's record of creating a $110,000,000 business in the midst of Depression. Born at Union City, Mich, to an improvident Methodist minister, he made his first profits picking berries, spraying vegetables, digging ditches, selling clothes. Once he rode an ostrich in a race against a horse at a Grand Rapids racetrack. After college and law school at Boulder, Colo., he turned...
...theme the Peasant's Economic Struggle, showing in broad cartoon masses the peasant, his sad wife and child, his grain and his disastrous relations with the middlemen. Overhead O'Higgins has put a massive design of factories, cannon, two soldiers fighting to the death under the calm gaze of a fat overlord. Legend: "Against Imperialistic...
...pleasant work, her sophisticated friends, her artful practice of dodging disagreeable situations. Lovely to look at, light and gracious. Lily "told no anecdotes about admirers, or humorous scrapes in which she herself appeared as a figure of good entertainment value; she did not take out her mirror and gaze, spellbound, at her own reflection; there was nothing consciously graceful about any of her gestures." This paragon of modern virtue fell in love with Lionel...
...presentation of these photographs is quite unusual at a hearing of this kind," cried Director Driscoll. "In my zeal and desire to adequately place before the negotiators the problem confronting my fellow-workers, I am eager that the negotiators . . . shall first of all be given reasonable opportunity to gaze upon the countenances of the army of workers whose happiness, contentment and prosperity is in their hands...
...with the river labeled "Rio Téo-doro." Below, kneeling at a portable table, Kermit Roosevelt keeps a record of the expedition. In the centre two expeditionists are pushing aside jungle growth so that a burly, square-headed figure in khaki breeches and boots may gaze with hat in hand upon his river...