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Goucher Girls, Goucher College (for girls) in Baltimore has a rule forbidding its students to fly to and from the city. Last week the authorities yielded to the coaxings of a dozen students, allowed them to fly home for Easter holiday in chartered planes. One ship took off for Newark. Two others headed for Pittsburgh. One of these, carrying five girls, got only 20 mi. west of Baltimore's Logan Field when low clouds turned it back. The pilot of the other Pittsburgh-bound ship, with three girls, lost his way in snow and sleet, was thrice forced down...
Founder of Beneficial was the late Clarence Hodson who supported the Russell Sage Foundation in writing and getting 25 States to adopt the general form of the Uniform Small Loan Law to govern the operations of personal finance companies. Mr. Hodson opened a loan shop in Newark, N. J., just before that State passed the Small Loan Act in 1914. He immediately started expanding his operations. In 1929 the present Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. was formed by a big merger. It now has 318 offices in 200 cities and communities. Last year it loaned...
...gift of $200,000 to Harvard College was recently announced in Surrogate's Court, Newark, New Jersey. The donation arose from a case in which Harvard contested the terms of a bequest...
Died. Wallace Mcllvaine Scudder, 77, founder and publisher since 1883 of the Newark, N. J. Evening News, philanthropist, onetime engineer, attorney, grandfather of Dorothea Scudder who married U. S. Tennis Champion John Hope Doeg last month (TIME, Feb. 9); of heart disease; in Newark. A liberal, non-partisan journalist who built up his paper's influence by the force of his own personality, he was a relic of journalism's "old school": Whitelaw Reid, Charles Anderson Dana, Joseph Pulitzer, Henry Watterson, James Gordon Bennett...
High ran the hopes of the Wets last December when U. S. District Court Judge William Clark, at Newark, N. J., handed down a decision that the 18th Amendment was invalid. Judge Clark, in quashing an indictment brought against one William Sprague for transporting a truck load of beer, had contended that the 18th Amendment should have been ratified by State conventions (representing the People) rather than by State legislatures (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week it was the Drys' turn for jubilance. Acting for the U. S. Supreme Court, speaking before a courtroom crowded but orderly, tall, bespectacled Associate...