People: Sep. 9, 1929

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

Colonel Edward Rowland Robinson Green, famed invalid son of the late multimillionairess Hetty Green, received a new automobile to add to his fleet of 25. Built by General Electric Co. and Rauch & Lang Corp., it has a gasoline engine which drives a dynamo and, from the electric current so created, a motor which is connected by a shaft with the rear axle.* Of all Colonel Green's cars only one does he drive, a small electric storage battery car which he uses...

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