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Tardy commuting students of the Cheney, Wash. Normal School brought this scribbled excuse...
Financial troubles force students out of college. This in turn forces teachers out of jobs. To bring the outs together a "depression college" was announced last month by Dr. Arthur Cheney Clifton Hill Jr., Dartmouth 1925, economics professor 1927-29 at Springfield College (Mass.), staff member last year at Brookings Institution in Washington, where he took his doctorate in economics. Dr. Hill picked Port Royal for his college chiefly because of its proximity to Washington. It was comparatively simple to arrange leases on Port Royal dwellings, two colonial manors with wooded grounds, the old brick Town Hall...
Largest maker of dress silks is Stehli Silks Corp. Susquehanna, Schwarzenbach Huber & Co., Cheney Bros., C. K. Eagle are all large silk makers, but their business is less specialized. In 1929 Stehli sold 14,000,000 yards-enough for 5,000,000 dresses. About three-fourths was sold to dress manufacturers, one-fourth to stores for over-the-counter distribution. Their annual volume is nearly $25,000,000. The business was founded by Statthalter Rudolph Stehli in Obfelden, Switzerland, in 1837, has remained in the family ever since. The company now has 3, 500 looms scattered through Switzerland, Italy, Germany...
...Cheney's game, less powerful than clever, was well suited to the peculiarly pinched fairways and hard little greens of the course at Saunton. In the third round she put out Jean Hamilton, who had beaten Miss Orcutt. Next day she played Beryl Brown, won 3 & 2 for the chance to play Enid Wilson...
Clearly this was the match that would decide the championship. Both of them knew it. Mrs. Cheney, who makes a habit of not speaking to her opponents, wore a long rabbit's foot attached to her belt. Miss Wilson carried a shooting stick and sat on it, examining her man-sized shoes, while Mrs. Cheney played her shots. Good rolling approaches to greens that were too small and fast for niblick shots saved Mrs. Cheney three holes on the out nine; but Miss Wilson was outdriving her by 50 yards on nearly every hole. On the 14th, already...