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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...
...Colonel Sprague declared: "There was a meeting in New York fin 1920] of a group of wealthy men, friends of General Wood. They agreed that the campaign would cost $1,000,000 and that they would underwrite it. A substantial part of that amount was raised and taken by Procter and spent in an expensive and elaborate campaign, and he continued to spend to a total...
...enterprising firm of Procter and Gamble...
...Cincinnati, Procter & Gamble, famed manufacturers of Ivory Soap and Crisco, joined the movement to abandon billboards in pictorial locations...