Word: procters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Procter & Gamble Co. (Ivory Soap, Crisco...
...Procter & Gamble, manufacturers of "Ivory," "Naphtha," and many another soap, must change their advertising methods. The Supreme Court's action was a victory for the Federal Trade Commission who had ordered Procter & Gamble to cease using the word "naphtha" in advertising soap and soap products in which kerosene was used and which contained less than 1% of naphtha...
Among other things that the chemists were to do was the presentation of a gold award to Professor Sabatier of the University of Toulouse, Nobel prizewinner in 1912, who led the French delegation. The award was to be supplied by the Procter & Gamble Co. (Ivory Soap) of Cincinnati whose debt to Professor Sabatier is great, he having perfected a catalytic effect with nickel that permits hydrogen to be added to many compounds, "especially the oils," whence soap of a famed fractional purity is manufactured...
...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...