People: Dec. 23, 1929

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

Mayor William Frederick Broening of Baltimore got in the City Hall elevator, felt it lurch loose its cables, fall three floors. Both his ankles were sprained.

Senora Sarafina Gomez, comely wife of Mayor Miguel Mariana Gomez of Havana, visiting Manhattan with her husband, said of her town: "We have more good American tourists than bad ones.''

John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl Jellicoe, Wartime Commander of the British Grand Fleet, underwent in London an operation on his upper jaw bone.

Jack Johnson, oldtime Negro...

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