Word: odium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who had been interned in Germany had picked up only odds & ends of information. A.P.'s balding Louis Lochner deflated the myth of the effectiveness of German propaganda. The ''greatest blunder" of Hitler's career, Lochner said, was when he "took upon himself the odium of declaring war upon the U.S." Having for months told the German people that "we won't let ourselves be provoked" by the U.S. pre-war attitude, Hitler then had to confront his people with war against a nation whose entry into World War I had once before turned...
...Stanley's idea grew out of a subcontractor hunt he conducted for Floyd Odium's Contract Distribution Office last summer. The big gap between sub-and prime contractors, he found, was ignorance. The small manufacturer could not find out just what the big one wanted, or even who he was; the big fellow could not find out what the small fry had to offer. In his talks with the small fry, Stanley decided that they needed to know only a few basic facts to find their proper subcontracting niche: 1) the materials to be handled, 2) the type...
...Nelson himself recently complained that Harrison was a disbeliever in conversion. But Nelson holds that Harrison was a victim of OPM's faulty direction, has faith that he will deliver the goods. Into Harrison's lap also falls the ticklish problem of subcontracting-with Financier Floyd B. Odium, who made the most recent unsuccessful attempt to solve it, moving to a nebulous post as "adviser...
...Jesse Jones monopoly. SPAB cannot enforce its Latin American rulings-such policies are set by the Board of Economic Warfare and interfered with by the State Department. SPAB cannot touch production-that belongs to Knudsen in OPM. SPAB cannot handle conversion-that is the function of Floyd Odium's subcontracting division, and Odium cannot do anything either, because the Army & Navy let all contracts. Yet SPAB is supposedly the top defense board...
...Having dug up the facts from State Employment Agencies and other sources, Report dramatized the struggle, of small business against priorities unemployment (TIME, Sept. 15) early in November, before Floyd Odium's "circus" did (TIME...