Word: procter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, Judge Thomas W. Slick sits on the bench sifting the chaff which is all there is left from the winnowing of ambitions and aspirations of five years ago. Before him last week was a case, Procter v. Sprague, a suit to recover $50,000, a part of the $1,750,- 000 that went glimmering with the hopes of both gentlemen in that great year of glimmerings...
...enterprising firm of Procter and Gamble...
...Cincinnati, Procter & Gamble, famed manufacturers of Ivory Soap and Crisco, joined the movement to abandon billboards in pictorial locations...
...sermon of the week was delivered-on this subject-by Col. William Cooper Procter, whose family, together with the Gambles, makes Ivory Soap in Cincinnati. (The Gambles are famed Methodist philanthropists.) Col. Procter, stern, swarthy and big, was known four years ago as financial "nunky" of General Wood, presidential aspirant. Speaking as chairman of the money-raising committee of which Bishops Talbot and Gailor are honorary chairmen, he said...
...secretary of the class of 1901, Mr. J. O. Procter declared that "the gift is one of Harvard's traditions. A poor gift brands the class as inferior and its members are a poor lot." Members of the class of 1899, which will present its gift in June of this year at its 25th reunion, have all agreed that the gift is the most important act of a class after its graduation. Most members of the class of 1898 which set the new mark of $150,000 last year, rank the gift ahead of both undergraduate and later accomplishments...