People, May 31, 1937

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news: Maryland's Governor Harry Whinna Nice planned to enter a Manhattan hospital for an operation to remove his right eye, injured in a fall three years ago.

The University of Wisconsin accepted 101 Russian paintings—all but 20 by Soviet State artists—from U. S. Ambassador to Russia Joseph Edward Davies (Wisconsin '98).

At a Philadelphia Council hearing, Mayor S. Davis Wilson asked Board Chairman Samuel Matthews Vauclain of the Municipal Gas Corporation to support his campaign to reduce Philadelphia's gas rate from 90¢ to 50...

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