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...Lord Privy Seal, Thomas Johnston, 48 and Scotch, rose to defend the Government...
While studying Listerine last month, the Journal noted something new. In Printers' Ink, advertising men's weekly, John Lawrence Johnston, banker-president of Lambert Pharmacal Co., makers of Listerine, told how advertising had made his company successful. In 1920 the Lambert Company spent practically nothing for advertising. Its year's earnings were $115.000. Last year the concern spent approximately $5,000,000 for advertising. Its year's profit...
...Edward N. Johnston and Robert C. Cutting, consulting engineers, last week brought suit for $500,000 against Refined Syrups, Inc., of which tall young Charles Shipman Payson, son-in-law of the late Payne Whitney, is a big stockholder. They told this story...
...many years Refined Syrups lost money. Its chief problem lay in the heavy duty of $40 a ton on the sugar-syrup which it imported from Cuba. Consultants Johnston and Cutting were called in. They found that if the solution were 48% sugar instead of 68% the duty would be 83^ a ton. But this solution would ferment within ten days. Hence they suggested that syrup ships halt at the three-mile limit while the syrup was being mixed with water to reduce its sugar content. They charged that the company had promised to let them patent the idea...
Engaged. Conway Howard Olmstead, stepson of Publisher Vance Criswell McCormick (1916 chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee); and Mary Elizabeth Johnston, niece of President DeForest Hulburd of Elgin Watch Co.; in Chicago...