People, Jan. 31, 1938

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Speaking in academic cap & gown to students of Washington's Peirce School, U. S. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley declared the U. S. has "more representation and more taxation than the forefathers ever dreamed of."

Early one evening a lean, white-haired man of great dignity was led by three bowing captains to a table in Manhattan's noisy Cotton Club. He watched Tap-Dancer Bill Robinson perform, listened with interest to the music of Cab Galloway. As he left, Maestro Arturo Toscanini said he had had...

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