Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Married, childless, tall, gaunt, white-haired but young-faced, Col. William Cooper Procter is the man who guides the destinies of Ivory Soap, his company's most famed product. His military title was won in the Ohio National Guard. Later at the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Plattsburg, he became the firm friend of General Leonard Wood, whom he supported for the Presidential nomination. Princeton graduated him in 1883, thanks him for Procter Hall, dining hall of the graduate college. Deeply religious and serious, Col. Procter is no reformer. He drives fearlessly and fast in open cars, goes...
Rockwell Kent, artist, author (Voyaging, Wilderness?), inconvenienced by the discontinuance of railroad service at his Ausable Forks, N. Y. farm, wrote the Public Service Commission, saying that for five months no trains had run on the Ausable Forks-Plattsburg branch of the Delaware & Hudson R. R. Said he: "No application was ever made to the commission by the railroad for permission to discontinue service ... the severance of all railroad passenger communication with the main line will injuriously affect the growth of the communities surrounding it, the value of the real estate and the volume of local trade in the communities...