Word: rolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some qualifications for Ornery Club membership: wearing "good luck" galluses; finger-jabbing people in the chest while conversing; messing in the kitchen; carrying love charms; wearing No. 17 celluloid collars on No. 15 neckbands; general orneriness. Prominent in an alleged membership of 400,000 are Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr.; of California, Speaker John Nance Garner, Senator Huey Pierce Long of Louisiana, the entire Anti-Saloon League...
Thus last week did James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. take his stand beside three previous Governors of California in denying executive clemency to the labor agitator who was convicted of bombing ten persons to death during San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day parade.* In a slow firm voice, chubby Governor Rolph read his decision before officials, newsmen and newsreel cameras packed into his office in the Capitol at Sacramento...
What reopened the case was the spectacular dash across the continent of New York's publicity-loving little Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker last November to make an emotional appeal to his good friend Governor Rolph for Mooney's release. To Matt Sullivan, his legal adviser and onetime chief justice of the State Supreme Court, Governor Rolph turned over the Mooney record for recommendations. After five months Mr. Sullivan advised the Governor to refuse Mooney a pardon for the following reasons...
...Quentin, Prisoner Mooney left his potato-peeling to hear the decision in the warden's office. Sixteen years behind its grey walls have warped his perspective on the world at large and rendered him ''stir daffy."* Hoping for nothing from Governor Rolph, Mooney declared: "This makes me the outstanding figure in the world's labor movement and a symbol of the struggle of Labor for its rights." In San Francisco his defense committee exclaimed that he "had no chance whatever of receiving a fair and impartial hearing from representatives of as unprincipled a bunch of pirates...
...Raisa of Chicago Civic Opera Company revealed that since last summer she has been constantly guarded by armed escorts because blackmailers demanded $500. Their threat: "To put you in a cellar where an asp will drink ten gallons of your blood." Motoring near Vallejo, Calif. Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., wearing his customary high boots, waded into a muddy slough to help extricate two women whose automobile had skidded from the highway...