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Seven years ago Goodnight sold his ranch and buffaloes to Joseph Irving Staley of Wichita Falls, Tex. Mr. Staley made a fortune in oil, reached out into ranching, banking, aviation. Depression has pinched him. Ready cash is precious. The proposed buffalo hunt might realize $75,000. Besides, except in zoos and National Parks, kept buffaloes are an expensive nuisance...
...made president of the company. Although Penick & Ford was almost wrecked by the depression of 1921, 1930 saw its profits at $1,811,348 against 1929's $1,882,441. It is the country's third largest maker of corn products (second: A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., Decatur, Ill.). Famed are its Br'er Rabbit Molasses and Vermont Maid Maple Syrup. Son successfully faced Father, was not defeated...
...ORATOR Geoffrey McNair Gates Donald Staley Gibbs...
...Donald Staley Gibbs of Charlotte, Vermont...
...recent decision of Justice Staley of New York renders legal the action of the White Plains school board in dismissing pupils at the option of their parents half an hour early to attend religious instruction. In the opinion of Judge Staley, neither the constitutional provision for the separation of church and state nor the requirement of compulsory school attendance were infringed. According to strict, legalistic interpretation of the statutes, the judge was no doubt correct. But socially, the wisdom of cutting into school hours to provide for theological education is open to question...