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Left. By James Norris Gamble, vice president of Procter & Gamble Co. ("Ivory Soap"); an estate of $6,341,553, mostly in stocks & bonds...
Last January Col. Procter, a devout Episcopalian, added $240,000 to a previous gift of $60,000 to the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio. Income from that augmented fund is to increase the salary of Henry Wise Hobson, the diocese's new bishop coadjutor whom Col. Procter and his co-religionists brought from All Saints' Church at Worcester, Mass. (TIME, May 12, 1930). Bishop Hobson presided at the children's research clinic dedication last week...
Cincinnati's chief knight, Col. William Cooper Procter, last week witnessed the dedication of his Children's Hospital Pediatric Research Clinic. It is a five-story, thoroughly equipped institution whose purpose is, in Knight Procter's words, "to provide for and carry on investigation, research and development, both medical and scientific, for the benefit of children, including investigation and research with reference to children's diseases, problems of children's nursing and children's social welfare." To accomplish all that and, further, to make Cincinnati the world's pediatric centre, he created...
...Procter gave the money for this research clinic three years ago. Hence to his fellow Cincinnatians, who perhaps because of their community's nickname ("Queen City") like to dub their chief citizens "Knights," he became a knight hospitaler. Another knight hospitaler is Col. Procter's father's and grandfather's partner in the Procter & Gamble candle and soap business, James Norris Gamble, 95, who still lives in Cincinnati and who has given $1,500,000 to Cincinnati's Christ Hospital (TIME...
Whale fat is not used in the U. S. as a base for margarine. But Scandinavian and German margarines contain it. Hydrogenated, snowy white, in the U. S. it goes into Procter & Gamble's "Chipso" and "P & G" naphtha soap. Into New York Harbor last fortnight steamed the Sir James Clark Ross with oil from 1,444 whales for Procter & Gamble...