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California. Republicans renominated their ten Congressmen, Democrats their one. Mayor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of San Francisco, won the Republican gubernatorial nomination over Governor Clement Calhoun Young...
Three California Republicans stridently contested their great state's gubernatorial primary election this year-Governor Clement Calhoun Young, Mayor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of San Francisco, District Attorney Buron Fitts of Los Angeles County. Excitement was heightened by the Republicans' virtual knowledge that their nominee would be California's next Governor after an easy victory in November over Milton K. Young, Democrat...
Prohibition was a prime issue. Governor Young was backed by the Anti- Saloon League. District Attorney Fitts claimed he was no less Dry than the Governor. These two did a lot of their campaigning from church pulpits, led prayer meetings, spoke on "Christian Statesmanship." Mayor Rolph, a West-Coast counterpart of Manhattan's Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, would not declare himself beyond the joshing statement: "Why, I'm not a Wet. I've been on the water wagon for two years...
Among the travelers will be Daughter Roberta Starr Semple, 18, and Son Rolph McPherson, 16. The itinerary will include a visit to the Oberammergau Passion Play in Germany, will reach its climax in the Garden of Gethsemane on Jerusalem's outskirts. From twilight on Holy Thursday to twilight on Good Friday, Evangelist McPhers/on will conduct services. In the River Jordan she will supervise the baptism of 500 of her companions...
...Hoover." The "advance agent" made the first formal public speech of his Nomineehood last week, at San Francisco's Civic Centre (city hall). He found words "difficult vehicles" for thanking Californians for presenting his name to the G. O. P. He reminisced about early California, before Mayor James Rolph Jr. became a "public institution in San Francisco" and when (33 years ago) young Herbert Hoover hunted a job there. It was a non-political speech, unless the following was politically construed: "The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest...