Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Samuel Simeon Fels, 90, president of Fels & Co. (Fels-Naptha soap), which his father and brother founded in 1881, philanthropist (an estimated $40 million for good works, including Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium) and optimist ("Nature has a great purpose in view for us"); in Philadelphia. Single Taxer and New Dealer Fels advocated Government control of hours, wages and profits in his 1933 book, This Changing World...
...only decoration in the Philadelphia office of Samuel Simeon Pels is a bust of Abraham Lincoln, made entirely of soap. That is fitting enough: Samuel Fels, who celebrated his goth birthday last week, has spent a lifetime making soap. Still active as president of Fels & Co. (Fels-Naptha), which his father and brother founded 74 years ago, Soapmaker Fels put in a five-hour day, as usual, in his office across from the factory. Though he makes only soap and soap chips-and has never gone in for soap opera-Fels has steadily kept his company among...
Before this tough language was deleted, Northwestern's Dean Simeon E. Leland charged that the medical profession is governed by "Petrillo and Fishbein economics." "Medicine," said he, "is the only profession where the element of competition comes only at the beginning ... If we had more, we would have better doctors. There would be more opportunity for medical research and competition would weed out the weaker ones as it does in other professions...