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...total one billion dollars, the Board of Directors of the National City Bank of New York, last week sat in solemn conclave. The roster of the world's most potent bank includes the names of Capitalist N. F. Brady, Shipper P. A. S. Franklin, Soap Man W. C. Procter, besides many another bigwig. To this array was added the name of John D. Ryan, Chairman of the Board of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, miner, friend of trusts, "combinations," high finance...
...express things. He canot touch emotion with winged words. In conversation he is witty, but on the platform he is dull, heavy, too careful of his facts, not sufficiently boisterous. "Do things, but don't boast about them" is his motto. So neither he nor his rich backers (primarily Procter, Ivory Soap man) could sell him to the politicians. It was deep disappointment. Theodore was dead. Was Leonard...
...infancy of the Age of Advertising was a day of great phrases. Lately advertisers and their copywriters have grown more subtle and sophisticated. About two years ago the Procter and Gamble Co. introduced, in the white-space areas of their Ivory Soap displays, the piquant ménage of a family called Jollyco, whose members soon became as well known and beloved as the great funny folk?the Gumps, the Katzenjammers, Barney Google and that young patriarch of the comic sheets, Little Nemo...
...Procter and Gamble Co. wound up the Jollycos for some reason, probably because it knew that too little of a good thing is better than enough...
Another serious problem for the larger makers of industrial alcohol is the competition afforded their product by glycerin compounds for preventing frozen radiators. Glycerin is a by-product of soapmaking, and such large soapmakers as Lever Bros, and Procter & Gamble are strenuously seeking to market glycerin anti-freeze mixtures. The Commercial Solvents Co. and the United Carbide Co. also are perfecting competitive mixtures for the same purpose...