Word: rolph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kiss. Goodie has never been shy about his political ambitions. In 1934, as a young and prosperous Los Angeles lawyer, he campaigned vigorously for Frank Merriam, a colorless, conservative long shot in the G.O.P. gubernatorial sweepstakes. In a stroke of fate, Merriam's opponent, the favored "Sunny" Jim Rolph, died. When Merriam became governor, Knight was paid off with an appointment as Superior Court judge in Los Angeles. "I asked for the job," Goodie admits frankly. "Nobody ever gave me a job in my life. Any man who wants a political job gets it because he asked...
Died. Frank F. Merriam, 89, onetime (1934-39) Republican governor of California; of a heart attack; at Long Beach, Calif. Succeeding James Rolph Jr. in 1934, Merriam used the National Guard to squelch a San Francisco longshoremen's strike, that fall trounced Socialist-turned-Democrat Upton Sinclair in a bitterly fought gubernatorial campaign...
...Honingham, England, while hoeing his beets. Farmer Percy Rolph unearthed 300 corroded silver coins, sent them to the British Museum for analysis. The museum's experts were delighted; the coins, adorned with figures of horses and wild boars, were probably part of the hitherto hidden treasure of the fierce Iceni, an ancient British tribe, famed for their heroic but ill-fated revolt under Queen Boadicea against the Roman conquerors...