Word: soap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Leverhulme (wealthy manufacturer of Sunlight Soap) offered the Isle of Lewis to its inhabitants as a gift. He bought it in 1918 in the hope of " industrializing " the inhabitants, paid $700,000 for it. The inhabitants refused to coöperate with Lord Leverhulme, and, after spending several million dollars on improvements, he decided to give the place away...
Penniless, he was forced to work his way through college as a dishwasher, waiter, etc. In the intervals of studying 14 hours a day, he became acquainted with a group of delightfully crazy anarchists and socialists, carried the soap-box from which they poured forth extraordinary denunciations of capitalism, marriage, etc., and, later, passed the hat. He was clubbed in a police attack upon a socialist meeting, overworked in the asparagus and hopfields of California and once was forced to act as an interpreter between Salvation Army workers and a group of Mohammedan laborers who " told filthy stories in Pushtu...
Died. David B. Gamble, 70, member of the firm of Procter and Gamble, Cincinnati soap makers, at Pasadena, Calif...
Steel directors unanimously declare that steel workmen shall work 12 hours per day. The morality of the steel business becomes at once a subject for salon, schoolroom and soap box debate...
...Warner plays a kindly part in a comedy of disillusionment. He turns from soap manufacture to painting, puts his soul on canvas, and sells it?as the skin you love to touch...