Word: odium
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Little Business' Floyd Odium, breathing sympathy and courage, said he would go to bat for the jewelers. His sympathy was strengthened when canny Joe Martin pointed out that the U.S. is still importing jewelry from British manufacturers, whom war has not yet liquidated. Nevertheless this week the jewelers got the kiss of death from Donald Nelson...
...People are angry over the spreading of unemployment through little businesses being crushed out. Small business is being crucified. And you let big Wall Street guys run the show: you bring Floyd Odium in from Wall Street...
...switching into an investment trust, North American is following the lead of Floyd Odium's Utilities Power & Light (now Ogden Corp.), which expects to have around $23,000,000 of liquid capital after disposing of its utility stock holdings, and United Corp., which expects to have about...
...being "the outstanding flyers of the world for 1939," the Ligue Internationale des Amateurs (headquarters: Manhattan) awarded the Harmon International Trophy to two New Yorkers: Jacqueline Cochran and Major Alexander P. ("Sascha") de Seversky. Pretty, 31-year-old Aviatrix Cochran is the wife of Wall Street Tycoon Floyd Odium, has won the award twice before.* In 1939 she became the first of her sex to make a blind landing, set five national and two international records, some of them in planes designed by Major Seversky. Sascha Seversky himself holds a handful of records despite having lost...
...takes the power, it will have to take the responsibility. It will have to show a willingness, not hitherto apparent, to deal in world problems firmly and sensibly. And in doing so, it must also, as Britain has done, accept the odium of being top dog in the world. In that event, the U. S. can no longer afford to have its external policies subject to the whims of internal politics. It must think in world terms and regardless of quarrels about what party should be in power at home, it must acquire the tradition of carrying on a strong...