People: May 23, 1927

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

Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith

(New York) has a red-eyed elephant and a crouching panther on his desk. Last week a female bear cub joined them, prowled around among paper knives and cigar ashes. The elephant and panther are bronze. The bearlet is flesh and blood, was sent to the Zoo, named "Miss Sullivan."

Governor Roland Hartley (of the

state of Washington) said "Sit down" when George T. McCoy, secretary of the State Highway Commission, began to read minutes of a previous commission meeting....

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