Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such recoveries are not new to Atlas Corp. or to slim, smart Floyd Bostwick Odium. Confident and ice-cool, Odium has ridden through many a ruckus chiefly by saying nothing and letting his critics talk themselves out. The son of a Midwestern Methodist minister, Odium went to Wall Street in 1917, bought & sold so shrewdly that he was boss of an investment company with assets of $14 million by the time he was 37. During the depression he snapped up bargains, now has holdings in some 30 companies through his Atlas Corp. He earned the name "Fifty Percent Odium" because...
...Mexico City, its cheap, comfortable living and picturesque setting got it wide publicity as a G.I. students' paradise (TIME, March 29, 1948). Over 100 U.S. veterans have flocked south to enroll. But during the past year, San Miguel's sleepy decorum has been shattered by one ruckus after another. Last week the school had more trouble than it could handle...
Annoyed by Mahmout's low bidding and troubled by a dull market in U.S. mules, the U.S. traders raised such a ruckus that EGA took a closer look at the deal. It finally told Mahmout he could sell the mules, provided he bought them through established U.S. mule dealers. To make matters worse for him, EGA refused to pay his profit in dollars. He wotfld have to take that in Athens, in Greek drachmas. As for the mules, Ferd Owen got half the order (3,750) and Parker Jameson got the other half...
Even New York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer got into the ruckus. He belabored the board for ignoring anti-Hovde sentiment in Queens". Later, after public reminders that the appointment was none of his business ("An unseemly bumble," cried the New York Herald Tribune), he backed down. But Hovde withdrew his name from the pot. So, a short time later, rdid another promising candidate, Walter Consuelo Langsam, president of 1,200-student Wagner Memorial Lutheran College on Staten Island. On reflection, he decided to stay where he was. The board, which didn't care much...
Ruth Rogers and Elise Goedeke, both 1G, frightened by the prowler who was naked below the waist, barricaded themselves in the living room. Dorothy Kein 1G, was ironing in the kitchen during the ruckus. "I thought it was a mouse they were talking about," she explained...