People: Jul. 7, 1930

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

Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (Rhymes to be Traded for Bread, The Congo, General William Booth Enters Heaven), famed in his home town of Springfield, Ill. as much for civic enthusiasm as for poetry, recently backed the city's campaign for a lake to augment an inadequate water supply, by writing a signed and widely-circulated voters' bulletin. Excerpts: "You speculate on the practical uses of Lake Springfield. . . . The next afternoon you are inclined to loaf, take the trip over the Lake...

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