Word: soap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swarthmore College; Field Secretary Paul Porter of the League for Industrial Democracy; Graduate Student E. B. Shultz of Union Theological Seminary; Industrial Secretary Charles Webber of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Its other members: Harold F. Clark, Josephine Little, Lois MacDonald, Mildred I. Morgan, Clara Taylor, Sidnev David Gamble (Ivory Soap family...
Mothers Day was one of the first of the recent brilliant ideas concocted by ambitious salesmen. In its wake one completes the year with Fathers' Day. National blank bread week. International soap weeks, and even Universal eat-a-certain-kind-of-cracker month. There is now hardly a seven day stretch which does not yield its important hours to the grasping plans of retailers...
Whale fat is not used in the U. S. as a base for margarine. But Scandinavian and German margarines contain it. Hydrogenated, snowy white, in the U. S. it goes into Procter & Gamble's "Chipso" and "P & G" naphtha soap. Into New York Harbor last fortnight steamed the Sir James Clark Ross with oil from 1,444 whales for Procter & Gamble...
...presenting Precedent, Playwright I. J. Golden has turned the stage of the Provincetown Playhouse, experimental theatre where Eugene O'Neill's dramas were first presented, into a soap box. Only thinly disguised, San Francisco is called Queen City; Thomas J. Mooney is called Delaney. Discarding dramatic pretense, Precedent is a biased record of how a traction magnate has Delaney "framed," how the foes of Labor trump up evidence to send Delaney to jail and keep him there in spite of retrials, rehearings, appeals. In the midst of this great legal struggle, Delaney sits alone, an individual almost forgotten...
...William Cooper Procter ("Ivory" soap) sued Col. Sprague for his half of a $100,000 note which both signed to promote the presidential candidacy of the late Republican Leonard Wood. Col. Sprague settled, insisting he was not a "rich...