People: may 20, 1929

"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Calvin Coolidge, a director of New York Life Insurance Co., started from his Northampton home last week to attend a board meeting in Manhattan. In the Northampton station he sat—and sat. No train came. Director Coolidge eyed his watch, sat some more, in silence. After a half-hour, a station employé asked him what he was waiting for. Together they discovered that Director Coolidge had mistaken standard for daylight saving time. ... In Manhattan, Director Coolidge...

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