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...rather deaf but very active," there arrived in the U. S. Viscount Leverhulme, King of Port Sunlight, the home of soap, on board the S. S. Majestic. He was accompanied by his son, the Hon. William Hulme Lever, also by an old school fellow, Jonathan Simpson, and by five directors of his various companies...
...William Hesketh Lever he started life as a helper in his father's grocery store. Some 20 years later he began to manufacture soap on a small scale and eventually built up a business valued at some $500,000,000 out of his famous Sunlight Soap and Lux (sold in the U. S. by Lever Bros.). He himself is a model of efficiency and a hard worker, up at five-thirty every morning, at his desk at six, "through for the day" at seven...
Party line between Democrats and Republicans have been drawn so exceeding thin that dissatisfaction with one has become the chief lever for hoisting the other into power. And therefore, as Senator Underwood states on another page of this issue, the 1924 elections will doubtless again be decided by the general condition of the country and the general opinion of the present administration. He further deduces that opinion will be unfavorable, that the Democrats will therefore win, and that he will lead the march to Washington...
...elected last Fall. He has degrees from the Peru (Neb.) Normal School, the Union Biblical Seminary, Oskaloosa College, Omaha University, Leander Clark College. He has been a teacher, a United Brethren Minister, a college President and since 1919 a Congressman. He is President of the Lever Lock Rim Co., a Common Law trust company of Colorado, capitalized for $500,000 in shares of one dollar each. Last week he almost got into trouble...
...misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $300 for any Congressman to use his letter franking privilege for other than official business. The General Manager of the Lever Lock Rim Co. used some 250 of Mr. McLaughlin's franked envelopes, with Congressional stationery, in sending out letters from the Company's Manhattan office. The letters were sent to "Republican friends," inviting them to subscribe to the Company's stock "on the merits of inside information...