Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, Judge Thomas W. Slick sits on the bench sifting the chaff which is all there is left from the winnowing of ambitions and aspirations of five years ago. Before him last week was a case, Procter v. Sprague, a suit to recover $50,000, a part of the $1,750,- 000 that went glimmering with the hopes of both gentlemen in that great year of glimmerings...
...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...
...before the Illinois Superior Court in which Colonel Procter is seeking to recover from Colonel Sprague half of what he spent in paying up the liabilities left over after the campaign - an amount which is supposed to be several times as large as that at issue in the present v suit...
Last week it was announced in Chicago that Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., large department store, had bought out the John V. Farwell Co., wholesale dry goods dealers. John V. Farwell announced that he and his brothers wished to retire...
Incoming. Into New York harbor sailed the 1925 detachment of Oxford debaters: R. H. Bernays, an Englishman; H. J. S. Wedderburn, a Scot; H. V. Lloyd-Jones, a Welshman. Each of the three was president of the Oxford Union (debating society) for a term last year. Each is already active in British politics. At Harvard and Princeton they will maintain that the growth and activities of the Socialist movement are detrimental to social progress." At Colgate, Bates and the University of Pennsylvania, they will denounce Prohibition. Elsewhere their proposition will be in regard to the World Court and recognition...