People, Apr. 4, 1932

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

William Henry Cardinal O'Connell. Archbishop of Boston, who lately flayed radio jazz and "crooners" (TIME, Jan. 18), broadcast over NBC in Boston an introduction to a scheduled program of Easter music from the Vatican. At the end of his remarks the transatlantic radio blared forth not the Vatican choir but, thanks to a studio mixup in Rome, an Italian band torturing U. S. jazz.

In the library of his Manhattan home, dressed and ready for dinner, John Pierpont Morgan sat down at a flat-topped desk, read into two boxlike microphones from a letter which lay there. NBC technicians who alone heard the voice nodded their approval, threw switches for a real broadcast. After an introduction by NBC President Merlin Hall Aylesworth, Banker Morgan donned gold-rimmed spectacles (usually he wears pince-nez), picked up in his right hand a manuscript which he had written longhand, spoke in an easy, deep "telephone" voice. It was Banker Morgan's first broadcast. He did it to help the "Block-Aid" campaign to help New York's needy. Excerpt: "We have reached a point where the aid of governments or the gifts of individuals, no matter how generous, are insufficient to meet the conditions which have come upon us. So we must all do our bit. . . ."— While Banker Morgan spoke, his butlers Physick and Biles listened at a receiver in a back room. No photographs of the event were permitted. Employes of Publisher "William Randolph Hearst made and circulated a composite picture (see cut) showing Banker Morgan without glasses. dressed in a business suit, with hands clasped instead of holding manuscript. Hearstpapers, which have been hammering "the international bankers," derided the broadcast with an editorial in Publisher Hearst's best style, but unsigned, referring to "Jonn Plunderbund Morgan."

Into a Congressional committee room in Washington, D. C. stepped Owen D. Young and wearily dropped into a chair. He was sightseeing, he explained. He needed rest while his son Dick, 12, climbed to the Capitol dome. Said Banker Young: "I've brought each of my children to Washington on Easter when they reached 12. He is the last. ... I have found how much [the Government] offers physically to the taxpayer. Before I return home I expect to be a qualified guide."