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...reputation of being a fool, he fills his Community Church to overflowing on Sundays with sermons on subjects like cinemas, kidnapping, Will Rogers, Amos 'n' Andy. Last year he had Red Nichols and his Five Hot Pennies play during a Sunday night service. Says Dr. Jenkins: "The odium theologicum has always clung around me." Stocky and kinetic but often in ill health, he has been operated on 22 times, has lost, among other members, his right...
Last week Founder-President Floyd Bostwick Odium mailed to 46,000 stockholders a report revealing that their company, now simply Atlas Corp., was the largest investment trust in the U. S. with $121,000,000 in assets. Dearer to the hearts of the stockholders was the fact that in the process of gobbling up a score of other trusts during the past four years, President Odium had more than doubled the asset value of their shares. At the turn of the year Atlas stock had a net asset value of $11.02 a share, compared with...
...With such fallen comets as Pacific Eastern (formerly Goldman Sachs Trading Corp.), Blue Ridge Corp., Shenandoah Corp., etc., etc., President Odium had to take good assets with bad. Among Atlas subsidiaries (but not consolidated in the balance sheet) are Mississippi Valley Barge Line Co.; Alden Corp., which owns a closed furniture factory in Asheville, N. C., a vacant factory in Philadelphia and 17 vacant lots in Hoboken, N. J.; Palace Co., which owns an amusement park at Santa Monica, Calif.; Rewark Realty Corp., which owns the equity in a swank 52-acre Long Island estate; Red Banks Properties, Inc., which...
...more potent factor making for the decline of Dollfuss. This is the emergence of Starhemberg as the dominant personal force in Austrian politics. His arrival in a preeminent position has obviously been carefully timed, for it was delayed until Dollfuss had been forced to shoulder much of the odium attaching to the suppression of Vienna Socialism and after foreign sentiment had been aroused against the excesses of the Nazis...
...Astor Street and plays middling and sometimes mildly profane golf with his friend Melvin Traylor of Chicago's First National, of which he is a director and member of the executive committee. But unlike many a Chicago tycoon who got drenched in the downpour of Depression odium, George Ranney has come through with his reputation unaspersed. Last week Mr. Ranney discreetly held his peace while Continental directors waited until the RFC's approval should make possible formal announcement of his selection. But LaSalle Street felt sure that shortly after New Year he would go into the chairman...