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Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. seized the Golden Bear flag of Cali fornia and started a procession. Banker William H. Crocker uprooted the State's placard and followed. The lone star of Texas and South Carolina's crescent & palmetto, only other State ensigns apparent at the convention, swung into line. Walter Newton of Minneapolis, the President's political secretary, seized the Minnesota guidon. Senator Fess snatched the disloyal Wisconsin standard and waved, cackling with joy. The Hamilton (Ohio) Glee Club, a group of funereally garbed songsters who once provided music for Warren Gamaliel Harding's front porch campaign, sang...
...series of numbered placards, to signal for the band, the lights, the balloons, the organ, etc., etc. as they had been carefully scheduled to sustain a half-hour "demonstration." When he held up the placard numbered "1" and blew a whistle, the band, poised at an exit with Governor Rolph at its head, marched on the floor. Organized pandemonium broke loose...
When Mr. Hutson held up Placard 2 the band stopped playing "California, Here I Come" and fell into "Happy Days Are Here Again," Governor Rolph's official tune. Along toward Placard 15 a talking film of President Hoover urging the Senate to balance the Budget was thrown on the screens. Another placard wound up the demonstration with "Onward Christian Soldiers...
...Hollister, Calif., Jim Dale, 58, poultry-raiser of Petaluma, exhibited seven women to 5,000 wedding guests. They clapped loudest for Mrs. Emma Johnson, a 52-year-old San Jose widow, so he married her. Best man was California's Governor James Rolph Jr. The six losers were bridesmaids...
...ring at the W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Ranch at Pomona one afternoon last week. At the reins was Captain William Banning, pioneer stage driver. Beside him on the box was grinning Will Rogers. Inside the coach, holding tight, sat California's cowboy-booted Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. and Cereal Manufacturer Will Keith Kellogg (corn flakes), owner of the ranch. Bands played, a crowd of actors, actresses, ranchers and California citizens great & small cheered as Mr. Kellogg climbed down from the coach and up on a platform to present his ranch to the University of California...