People: May 12, 1930

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

The day before Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh arrived in Panama City, a colyumist on El Tiempo deplored that he had become "an instrument of imperialism. . . . The Lindbergh of today . . . translates, expands and fortifies the ambitions of imperialism. He is as significant in a spiritual sense as a Chicago sausage factory."

Mary Harris ("Mother") Jones, old-time labor crusader (TIME, May 5), received a congratulatory telegram on her 100th birthday from capitalist John Davison Rockefeller Jr., for picketing...

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