Word: oddest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, the National Safety Council-published its annual collection of Odd Accidents of the Year. Oddest...
...oddest diplomatic rituals in the world is the annual negotiation for fishery lease agreements between Japan and Soviet Russia. The talks begin in November. Everyone knows how they are going to come out-as they always have, with a compromise which two fishermen could reach in an hour's talk. But for as much as six months, representatives of the two countries bow deeply, sip tea, shake heads, pound tables, grin, frown, embrace, clench fists-throughout standing thunderously firm on impossible demands. Then, the day the first silvery smolts begin to run in the bitter waters off Sakhalin Island...
...enterprising Roosevelts, Elliott, in radio, naturally has the oddest messmates. Oddest of these for a Roosevelt to be hobnobbing with is a Chicago adman named Hill Blackett, mainly famous for having guided Alf Landon's campaign in 1936. The Blackett advertising agency, Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc., does the biggest business in radio: mostly sobby, low-cost network serials plugging household helps, headache remedies, beauty aids, etc. to U. S. housewives...
...Oddest quirk in the saga of Jimmy-in-Hollywood is that under another name Mr. Roosevelt might well make more money. When Cinemagnate Goldwyn hired him last year, just as Trust Buster Thurman Arnold had poised his ax over the cinema industry, Hollywood feared that if he were paid too much he would be resented as a last-minute Pocahontas. Jimmy Roosevelt has stayed as far away from the antitrust prosecutions as possible, although he was named as a defendant in the Goldwyn suit. He has served as Goldwyn representative on the board of United Artists and as Mr. Goldwyn...
...Oddest fact about 70-year-old retired Major General Sir Reginald Ford, appointed Chief Divisional Food Officer for London and the Home Counties last August, is that he makes his home in Brussels, Belgium, 250 air miles away. His is mainly a wartime job and he is needed in London only for occasional consultation. Explained Sir Reginald recently: "Heavens, man, I can get to London quicker than I could if I lived in Scotland. ... I catch the 10 a.m. plane from Brussels and am in my office...