Word: procters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Procter of Procter v. Sprague is Colonel William C. Procter of Cincinnati, whose name is more frequently coupled with another name, the name of Gamble, with which it is associated in the manufacture of Ivory Soap, which floats and is 99.44% pure...
...Colonel Sprague declared: "There was a meeting in New York fin 1920] of a group of wealthy men, friends of General Wood. They agreed that the campaign would cost $1,000,000 and that they would underwrite it. A substantial part of that amount was raised and taken by Procter and spent in an expensive and elaborate campaign, and he continued to spend to a total...
...this, amount $450,000 came in the, form of notes from Colonel Procter, which were on exhibit in court, and he declared on the stand that the grand total of his contributions was in the neighborhood of $600,000. In spite of this massing of money, the fund was exhausted in May of that year and the campaign "collapsed...
...Colonel Procter said that he had not been active in politics before, in a national campaign at least, but that he had had some experience, in fact, a lot of experience, in business, and was very familiar with the manner of reaching the people in the homes of the country, but that it took money to do it. He said that in these days it was his idea - to use a commercial expression - to 'sell' the candidate to the people just as if he were an unknown new proprietary article or useful appliance or invention...
...contest in question was over a $100,000 note signed by Procter and Sprague. Colonel Procter was obliged to pay off this note, and sued to recover half of the money from Colonel Sprague. Procter asserted that they were equally responsible for the note. Sprague asserted that Procter ran the whole campaign, spending money lavishly in spite of Sprague's protest, and that he signed the note with Procter merely as a secondary endorser so that the bank which discounted the note might know he was co-guarantor and had a part in the transaction...