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...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...
...William C. Procter, Ivory soap man, "angel" of the Leonard Wood campaign in 1920, and "Bob" Wolfe, newspaper proprietor of Columbus, O., both arch enemies of Harry M. Daugherty, visited the White House. The President is openly trying to patch up the Republican split in Ohio. Otherwise he has small chance of securing a block 'delegation from Ohio to the Republican Convention...
Died. David B. Gamble, 70, member of the firm of Procter and Gamble, Cincinnati soap makers, at Pasadena, Calif...
...factories which will be studied during this part of the trip will include those of the Ontario Power Company, the Shredded. Wheat Company, the Lackawanna Steel Company, the White Motor Company, the Goodyear and Goodrich Rubber Companies, the Toledo Ship Building Company, the National Cash Register Company, and the Procter and Gamble Company. While in Chicago the group will visit the stockyards and the large packing houses, the Grain Exchange, the Hart, Schaffner, and Marx and Sears-Roebuck Companies, as well as making a side trip to visit the United States Steel Company's plant at Gary...