Chapter 12 Section 12

In 1945, William Odward Jr. retired with the rank of "Lieutenant", and a bank vice president was already waiting for him.After several mergers and acquisitions, Hannover Bank has changed its name to "Standard National Bank".Little William worked for a few days and didn't like to work. He resigned and joined the board of directors. He was lying on the shares left by his ancestors with a bunch of tycoons and old men. He only paid dividends and didn't work. He even wanted to come to the board of directors meeting. He didn't want to come. Not coming. After being taught and persuaded by his parents, Little William tried several other family businesses, but they were all reluctant to do so, with no end in sight.Only in the "Turna Coarse Textiles Company" has made some achievements.At that time convertible cars came out not long ago, and there were very few on the street. Serena William already owned two, but because of the single variety, there was not much room for choice in color and style. "Turna" did not belong to the Odwa family, but was taken away by the Odwa family at the end of 1945 because the factory owner had borrowed a bank loan and could not repay it, and the Ministry of Defense no longer needed military canvas after the war ended. The coarse fabrics produced by "Turna" were used for military needs in wartime, and in peacetime, such as labor protection gloves, clothing, industrial sailing canvas, etc., and the strongest ones were used as gear belts on machines.Little William said, since it can be used in machinery, it means that the texture is fine. Why don't we make the rough work finer and make it high-end, and develop a series of canvas for the roof of convertible cars?

This new trick really brought unlimited business opportunities to the old company, and with the backing of its own bank, it was rich and powerful in the competition.By the early 1950s, "Turna" almost monopolized the coarse fabric manufacturing industry in the United States, and became the exclusive supplier of roof canvas for the Detroit Big Three. On January 14, 1947, Jenny gave birth to her second son with Little William.The child was called James Woodward, after his great-uncle and great-uncle, William Sr.'s brother. Long before "Turna" was booming, the production of roof canvas had just entered the right track, and William Jr. retreated bravely, or repeated his old tricks, and resigned himself to the board of directors.But this time, because of his significant contribution to the company's production change, he was appointed as the chairman for life, and the taps he earned were naturally different from others.Little William told his close friend Doudou that after the stimulation of Macon Island, life has become dull and tasteless, and there is nothing that can bring up his long-term interest.At this time, Greenville Becker had also taken over. He was the second head of First National Citibank, and he was also called "Doudou" together with William Jr.

From then on, things started to happen. The first thing, little William and his wife were expelled from the house by their parents. There is nothing wrong with an only son staying at his parents' house all the time, but this little William has been extremely lazy since he didn't go to work.He stays out every night and sleeps until 11 o'clock in the morning. When the family eats lunch, he eats breakfast, and he must have the servant bring the desk to the bed to eat.During the day, I still do my duty, making bubbles in the stables, wandering in the race hall, and disappearing as soon as it gets dark.When I finally got home in the middle of the night, most of the time I was so drunk that I was dragged back.

At first, Elsie, the old Mrs. Odward, was like all mother-in-laws, always blaming the daughter-in-law for her inability to win the hearts of men.It wasn't until the eyes of the neighbors showed disdain, that they called the young couple to the front at the behest of William, and said, "I have some spare money here, you can use it to buy a small house." In fact, Jenny Woodward had been looking forward to this sound for a long time. The "little house" that Yanni bought with her parents-in-law's money is a five-story granite building with an elevator standing on East 73rd Avenue in Manhattan.Also with the money of her in-laws, Jenny brought a complete set of 18th-century French furniture, sofas, tableware and paintings from France. What she wanted was to compete with her mother-in-law, because the old lady Elsie admired English, and the furnishings in the house were all English. goods.From a historical point of view, the United States, which was born as a colony, has no style of its own, but it must be called Britain and France when it comes to paying attention to words.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, Jenny Odward's move just catered to a heavyweight in New York's high society, the Duchess of Windsor, formerly known as Willis Simpson.