Monday, May. 19, 1930
"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:
Caught taking more than the legal amount of fish from a trout stream near Santa Cruz, Calif., said Roy Fellom Jr. to a man who claimed to be a law officer: "You can't arrest me. My father's a state senator."
"I can't, eh? Well, my brother is President of the United States," truthfully replied Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of the Stanford University School of Engineering, deputy game warden.
Learning that the home of his good friend Brand Dreibergen was afire in the village of Doorn, Holland, Wilhelm Hohenzollern mustered his houseservants, rushed on the scene just as the local fire brigade put out the blaze.
Maurice E. Connolly, onetime president of Queens (one of New York City's five boroughs), convicted of fat fraud in sewer contracts (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), lost his appeal, went to jail for a year. Said he: "Why make a Mardi Gras of it? ... the public loves a victim. . . . I'll serve my sentence with a clear conscience. . . . I'll read a whole bagful of good literature I brought over with me."
Ralph Leo Richards, half-brother of skilled Tennis Professional Vincent Richards, was sent to prison for an indefinite period (one day to three years), convicted of unlawfully entering a Manhattan apartment three months ago.
As he had said he would do, Amadeo Peter Giannini, potent branch banker, founder of Transamerica Corp. (world's biggest bankstock holding company), upon arriving last week at the age of 60, resigned from all his far-flung enterprises. Testifying before the House Banking & Currency Committee, said he: "Branch banking is coming and you can't stop it. You can't block economic progress. You're against a stone wall. Small communities are drying up. They don't need small unit banks. Farmers drive over paved roads to the larger cities to do their banking. . . . Why in the world can't we have nation-wide branch banking? If you have nation-wide branch banking you'll get away from this Wall Street bugaboo. . . . Branch banking will make 20,000 small bankers in this country rich."
Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., Dartmouth freshman, son of the motor tycoon, put forth with friends last week The Five Arts ($5 for the first three issues), a magazine bound like a book, superior in typography to any other U. S. undergraduate publication, illustrated with photographs of drawings and sculpture by Dartmouth men. Said the undergraduate daily Dartmouth: "Definitely better than one's best expectations. . . . The . . . project will have to step carefully to avoid the . . . error of being too consciously arty."
At Dartmouth, Scion Chrysler collects first editions, keeps a spitz dog, drives a green Chrysler roadster.
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