Word: crutcher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restaurant on the main floor of the white Wrigley Building which towers like a huge birthday cake beside an oily curve of the Chicago river. Snobbish Chicagoans who see him eating there are impressed with what they call the democracy of this great millionaire who was once a soap crutcher. In modern times soap is crutched or mixed by a machine but in the soap factory of William Wrigley Sr., opposite Wayne Junction, Philadelphia, the soap crutcher stood beside a vat of boiling soap and stirred it with a paddle. When Wrigley Jr.-young Wrigley then-tired of developing...
...dollars five-year notes; to pay balance of Federal estate and California inheritance tax on $42,000,000 estate of California's most famed book-collector; the library, now a public possession, is not among assets securing loan; Harris Forbes & Co., E. H. Rollins & Sons; counsel: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, O'Melveny, Tuller & Myers (Los Angeles...