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Other speakers pointed out that corporations should contribute to solve the social problems which they create in local communities. Said Colonel William Cooper Procter, President of Procter & Gamble, Ivory Soap makers, chairman of the conference: "Corporate gifts to community chests should be . . . among the legitimate expenditures of the corporation...
...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...
...Reference to Col. Procter's great benefactions to hospitals, etc. *And Advertising Manager...
...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...
Thus each generation of Ivory Soap Procters has been ''knighted" by the Chamber. Candlemaker William Procter was so honored in 1880 because he (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...