People, Jul. 12, 1937

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

In the House of Representatives' Cloak Room, Pennsylvania Congressman James P. McGranery tried to set off a firecracker under Arkansas Congressman Claude A. Fuller, held it too long, got a badly burned hand.

To celebrate July 4, New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman put out

from Asbury Park in a 52-foot power boat to review the Manasquan River deep-sea fishing fleet. A half-mile offshore, just when a water bucket had been tied on the Governor's line to show him how a tuna feels, a...

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