People: Jun. 24, 1929

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

Gov. Morgan Foster Larson of New Jersey is making substantial repairs to his summer home at Seagirt, N. J. Reason: Last week an airplane piloted by William Taft, Red Bank, N. J., zoomed into the roof, pierced it, stopped with its nose four feet from the empty gubernatorial bed. Greatly alarmed was the Governor's mother, 86, who was about to enter the Governor's bedroom.

Chief Justice William Howard Taft, cheery, straw-hatted, but looking thin, was...

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