Word: kidders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five years ago the FTC cracked down on the Kidder Oil Co. of La Crosse, Wis., manufacturers of a graphite lubricant called Koatsal. According to the FTC charges (at once broadcast from its busy mimeograph machines) Koatsal did none of the things President Joseph K. Kidder claimed it would do when added to automobile crankcase oil. Ex-newspaper man Kidder had little money; his business was sick from the adverse publicity, and fighting the FTC charges looked like a long and expensive process. But he was sure the FTC was wrong. When it asked him to sign a stipulation admitting...
Instead of signing the stipulation, Kidder demanded hearings, soon found himself on a legalistic merry-go-round which whirled him around for five years. The FTC held hearings in a half dozen different cities (with Kidder often acting as his own lawyer to save money), finally issued a cease and desist order: stop representing that Koatsal has any lubricating value except for what oil it contains. A less stubborn man might have let this blow finish him; Kidder stuck on until he reached U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. There last fortnight he won his case. Impressive was the list...
...Stoneleigh College Shailer Avery Elizabeth Gorman, Winchester Robert G. Axtel Catherine Lawrence, Wellesley Winslow B. Ayer Patricia Miller, Smith Edward R. Bacon Adell Voss, Swampscott Grover C. Bacon Jay Prince, Cambridge Edwin T. Baker Mary Favorite, Brimmer-May School William H. Baker Edith Alexander, Newton Stephen P. Baldwin Joy Kidder, Concord Benjamin N. Barksdale Janet Harwood, Beaver Richard S. Barrows Helen Francis, Wellesley George Bartlett Ann Folsom, Hingham Robert S. Benshimol Patricia Dadmon, Arlington Bernard R. Benson Sybil Hart, Packer Institute Robert G. Bigelow Marian Prentiss, Columbus, Ohio Carroll Binder, Jr. Carol Jones, Wellesley Nathaniel L. Blanchard Lee Burnett, Southborough...