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Soon afterward the mantle of knighthood descended, emphasizing Sir Henry's complete technical severance from his U. S. Fatherland...
...Continued from p. 2) William Cooper Procter, soap maker, who, like his grandfather and father before him, was made a life member of the Cincinnati Grand Chamber of Commerce. TIME likened this event to a "sort of civic knighthood" and concluded: "Knighthood in 1928 concerned science and philanthropy* more; soap, less." Quite the opposite of disparagement was intended...
...Procter, announced Chamber President Hutton, had been made an honorary member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce for life, which some compared to a sort of municipal knighthood.? Mr. Procter had given $2,500,000 for medical research at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital (TIME...
...with Soapmaker James Gamble) had founded a thriving soap industry at Cincinnati in 1837, also because he had battled for full weight in each package of merchandise. In 1899, his son William A. Procter received his life membership because he was first president of the incorporated Procter & Gamble Co. Knighthood of a Procter in 1928 concerned science and philanthropy more, soap less...
...Majesty could do no more. The act was equivalent to conferring knighthood; and the King-Emperor is restricted by custom from conferring a higher title than "Dame" on a woman not already a peeress...