Series 3
Legal files,
1919-1982
Boxes 371-378
Scope and Content Note
This series consists of legal files relating to Robert W. Woodruff's personal and professional life. The personal legal files cover topics such as Ichauway Plantation, Woodruff's personal holding and investment companies as well as files relating to his family. The professional legal files focus on Coca-Cola and its competition, including a 1940 legal battle with Lifesavers Corporation over their "Cola"-flavored candy. There are also files relating to the "Imitator," as Coca-Cola Company employees called Pepsi-Cola, including a biography of Walter S. Mack, Jr., the president of Pepsi-Cola.
Arrangement Note
Arranged in alphabetical order.
| Box | Folder | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 371 | 1 | Acklin, Arthur A., 1929-1945 |
| 371 | 2 | Acmaro Securities Corporation, 1932-1956 |
| 371 | 3 | Adams, George T., 1927-1946 |
| 371 | 4 | Advertising & Selling, "Cigarette Percentage Claims," 1941 |
| 371 | 5 | Ambassador Oil Corporation, 1955-1957 |
| 371 | 6 | Blue Ridge Investment Company, 1924-1937 |
| 371 | 7 | Bowling, Raymond W., 1948 |
| 371 | 8 | Chero-Cola Company, 1919 |
| 371 | 9 | Coca-Cola Bottling Company, 1953 |
| 371 | 10 | Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Oregon, Inc., 1950-1953 |
| 371 | 11 | Coca-Cola Bottling, Inc., Seattle and Everett, Washington territories, 1950-1951 |
| 371 | 12 | Coca-Cola Bottling, Inc., Tacoma, Washington plant and Olympia and Centralia, Washington depots, 1951 |
| 371 | 13 | Coca-Cola Company, 1919-1952 |
| 371 | 14 | Coca-Cola Company, Annual meeting, 1944 |
| 371 | 15 | Coca-Cola Company, Brecon Loading Company, 1941 |
| 371 | 16 | Coca-Cola Company, Consolidated sales report, 1945-1946 |
| 371 | 17 | Coca-Cola Company, Converting to a holding company, 1933 |
| 371 | 18 | Coca-Cola Company, Directors of Coca-Cola Bottling Companies, 1945 |
| 371 | 19 | Coca-Cola Company: LaSalle Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Flint and Lansing, Michigan [branch consolidation], 1951 |
| 371 | 20 | Coca-Cola Company, Legal, 1930-1938 |
| 371 | 21 | Coca-Cola Company, Legal, 1939-1940 |
| 372 | 1 | Coca-Cola Company, Officers, 1945 |
| 372 | 2 | Coca-Cola Company, "Plans for the Retirement of the Authorized and Outstanding Class 'A' Stock of the Coca-Cola Company," undated |
| 372 | 3 | Coca-Cola Company, Preliminary annual report, 1945 |
| 372 | 4 | Coca-Cola Company, Recapitalization plan, 1945 |
| 372 | 5 | Coca-Cola Company, Speeches, 1938-1940 |
| 372 | 6 | Coca-Cola Company, Stock, 1944-1945 |
| 372 | 7 | Coca-Cola Company, Sugar purchasing, 1945 |
| 372 | 8 | Coca-Cola Company, Taxes, 1945 |
| 372 | 9 | Coca-Cola Company of Canada Limited v. Pepsi-Cola Company of Canada Limited, 1940-1941 |
| 372 | 10 | Coca-Cola International Corporation, 1940-1949 |
| 372 | 11 | Coca-Cola International Corporation, Recapitalization plan, 1945 |
| 372 | 12 | Continental Gin Company, 1941 |
| 372 | 13 | Cowan, C.B., 1946 |
| 372 | 14 | Curtis, James F., 1935 |
| 372 | 15 | Elder, Eleanor H., 1934-1936 |
| 372 | 16 | Emory University, 1945 |
| 372 | 17 | "Future of the Soft Drink Industry," 1939 |
| 372 | 18 | Gardner, O. Max, 1940 |
| 372 | 19 | George, Walter F., Confidential, 1934-1944 |
| 372 | 20 | Guaranty Investment Company, 1919-1935 |
| 372 | 21 | Guaranty Trust Company of New York, 1945 |
| 372 | 22 | "High Point, North Carolina Distribution Survey, 1941" |
| 372 | 23 | Hirsch, Harold, Confidential, 1931-1938 |
| 372 | 24 | Hobbs, William J., 1954 |
| 372 | 25 | Hodgson, E.R. ["Ned"], Jr., 1944 |
| 372 | 26 | Ichauway Plantations, Inc., 1935-1943 |
| 373 | 1 | Jackson County, Georgia farm, 1939 |
| 373 | 2 | Jones, K.L., 1920 |
| 373 | 3 | Land Development Company, 1935-1941 |
| 373 | 4 | Lifesavers Corporation, 1940 [1 of 2] |
| 373 | 5 | Lifesavers Corporation, 1940 [2 of 2] |
| 373 | 6 | Lipscomb, Lamar Rutherford, 1944 |
| 373 | 7 | Lott, M.F., 1943 |
| 373 | 8 | McClure, John P., 1945 |
| 373 | 9 | McGovern, Frank E., 1935-1938 |
| 373 | 10 | Mack, Walter S., Jr., 1939-1941 |
| 373 | 11 | Mack, Walter S., Jr., Biography, 1940 |
| 373 | 12 | Mount Bernard Farm [Goochland County, Virginia], 1942-1947 |
| 373 | 13 | Mount Bernard Farm [Goochland County, Virginia], 1948 [1 of 2] |
| 374 | 1 | Mount Bernard Farm [Goochland County, Virginia], 1948 [2 of 2] |
| 374 | 2 | Nehi Corporation, 1938 |
| 374 | 3 | New York [State of], State Commission against Discrimination, 1945 |
| 374 | 4 | The New York Times Research Department, "A Study of Carbonated Beverages in the New York City Market," 1939 |
| 374 | 5 | Nunnally, Winship, undated |
| 374 | 6 | Nunnally & McCrea Company, 1916 |
| 374 | 7 | Pepsi-Cola Company, 1936-1940 |
| 374 | 8 | Pepsi-Cola Company v. Coca-Cola Company, 1938-1939 |
| 374 | 9 | Pepsi-Cola Company v. Coca-Cola Company, 1940-1942 |
| 374 | 10 | Pepsi-Cola Company, "Opposition to Application for Registration of the Word Pepsi-Cola," 1938 |
| 374 | 11 | Piedmont Securities Company, 1924-1955 |
| 374 | 12 | Possum Trading Company, 1944-1945 |
| 374 | 13 | Revenue Act, 1932 |
| 374 | 14 | Revenue Bill, 1943 |
| 374 | 15 | Rogers, Gloria, Trust, 1938-1942 |
| 374 | 16 | Root, C.J., 1940 |
| 374 | 17 | Roxa-Kola, 1940 |
| 375 | 1 | Sibley, John A., 1929-1940 |
| 375 | 2 | Sibley, John A., Soap Creek property, 1939 |
| 375 | 3 | Taxes, undated |
| 375 | 4 | Trust Company of Georgia, 1925 |
| 375 | 5 | Waldo Investment Corporation, 1932-1943 |
| 375 | 6 | Waldo Investment Corporation, 1944 |
| 375 | 7 | Waldo Investment Corporation, 1945-1946 |
| 375 | 8 | [62] Waverly Way, 1923-1925 |
| 375 | 9 | Woodruff, Emily and Ernest, Foundation, 1932-1954 |
| 375 | 10 | Woodruff, Ernest, Estate, 1932-1945 |
| 375 | 11 | Woodruff, Ernest, Estate, 1946-1948 |
| 376 | 1 | Woodruff, Ernest, Life insurance, 1940-1944 |
| 376 | 2 | Woodruff, Ernest, Powers of attorney, 1924 |
| 376 | 3 | Woodruff, Ernest, Trust agreements, 1932 |
| 376 | 4 | Woodruff, George, 1933-1949 |
| 376 | 5 | Woodruff, Henry F., Estate, 1935-1947 |
| 376 | 6 | Woodruff, Henry F., Estate, 1948 [1 of 2] |
| 376 | 7 | Woodruff, Henry F., Estate, 1948 [2 of 2] |
| 376 | 8 | Woodruff, Henry F., Estate, 1949-1950 |
| 376 | 9 | Woodruff, Henry F., Taxes, 1943 |
| 376 | 10 | Woodruff, Henry F., Trust, 1927-1943 |
| 377 | 1 | Woodruff, Henry F., Trust, 1944-1950 |
| 377 | 2 | Woodruff, Henry F., Will, 1946 |
| 377 | 3 | Woodruff, Nell Hodgson, Insurance, 1945 |
| 377 | 4 | Woodruff, Nell Hodgson, Power of attorney, 1924 |
| 377 | 5 | Woodruff, Nell Hodgson, Trust for Nell Woodruff Hodgson and Robert Francis Hodgson, 1929 |
| 377 | 6 | Woodruff, Robert W., 1926-1954 |
| 377 | 7 | Woodruff, Robert W., United States Army, 1917-1942 |
| 377 | 8 | Woodruff, Robert W., Insurance, 1934-1944 |
| 377 | 9 | Woodruff, Robert W., Insurance, 1945-1946 [1 of 2] |
| 377 | 10 | Woodruff, Robert W., Insurance, 1945-1946 [2 of 2] |
| 377 | 11 | Woodruff, Robert W., Liquidation of personal holding companies, 1938-1952 |
| 378 | 1 | Woodruff, Robert W., Personal holding companies, 1921-1951 |
| 378 | 2 | Woodruff, Robert W., Personal holding companies, 1952-1956 |
| 378 | 3 | Woodruff, Robert W., Power of attorney, 1925-1982 |
| 378 | 4 | Woodruff, Robert W., Transfer of rights to Nell Hodgson Woodruff, 1923-1924 |
| 378 | 5 | Woodruff, Robert W., Will, 1925-1946 |
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