Word: rolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have long since become accustomed to his practical jokes, are not surprised when he hands out explosive cigars, shaves during business conferences, becomes irrepressibly boisterous. And shrewd Mr. Fleishhacker now finds his name firmly imbedded in local projects. A supporter and campaign contributor of the late James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. who became Governor of California, he was made head of San Francisco's Park Commission, had named after him Fleishhacker Zoo, Fleishhacker Park, Fleishhacker Swimming Pool...
Frank Merriam is a moon-faced lowan who crept into Sacramento as Lieutenant Governor in 1930, succeeded to the Governorship when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last year and black-jacked California's influential Republicans into nominating him against Sinclair by threatening to withhold State troops from the San Francisco strike last summer. He is an arch political trimmer, paying harmless lip service to the Townsend Plan and at the same time complaining to his capitalist supporters that he is surrounded by fanatics. But even Frank Merriam could not trim the fact that California desperately needed revenue...
...Department of Justice could do nothing for young Brooke Hart, son of a San José, Calif, drygoods merchant. His kidnappers killed him almost as soon as they captured him last November. They were lynched, to the great satisfaction of California's late Governor Rolph...
Opposition to the Sinclair candidacy was focused on the plump, round-faced and by no means inspiring person of Republican Frank Finley Merriam. A small-bore, Iowa-born politician who was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1930, Frank Merriam of Long Beach became Acting Governor when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last June. The San Francisco general strike and a shrewd stratagem won him his nomination for the coming election. Prior to the strike, onetime Governor Clement Calhoun Young had been assured Republican support by no less a faction than Herbert Hoover & friends. When big industrialists began to beseech Acting Governor Merriam...
...very unlikely that Mr. Sinclair's election could automatically bring about all the starting points in his EPIC program, for be will face a legislature which is not only conservative, but which is secuntoured to dancing to the super-conservative time of the late Jim Rolph. But in the present state of business psychology, rumor is as powerful as accomplished fact in raising the already high blood pressure of the financial world. If conservative experts predict that the credit of the United States will be rendered hazardous by the comparatively mild radicalism of Rooseveltianism, it is certain that the startling...