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...William George Rolph, visiting in Philadelphia, heard of trouble in the Philippines. He postponed his return to his home in London, joined the U.S. Army, saw action in Panay, then fought the Moros in Mindanao...
Last week Marine Corps public-relations officers turned up Rolph in San Francisco. Close to his 67th birthday, he is a gunnery sergeant in the Marine Corps...
Between 1899 and 1944 William George Rolph had put in a lot of time with U.S. forces. In 1911 he enlisted in the Marines, landed at Pekin and Shanghai to help protect U.S. citizens during the Chinese revolution. Five years later he stormed a fort with the Marines in Santo Domingo, later served in Haiti...
Final--Won by Rogers (Columbia); second, Barnes (Harvard); third, Glyan (Army); fourth, Rolph (Dartmouth); fifth, Fisher, (Cornell). Time...
Last week Mr. Ford listened to his colleague, red-faced Representative Thomas Rolph of San Francisco, lengthily examine Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, on taxes. Mr. Ford knew that Mr. Rolph, not being a member of the House Ways & Means Committee, has no particular say about taxes; that Chairman Eccles, not being Secretary of the Treasury, has even less say. He knew that, while this theoretical discussion continued, prices were still going up; that this bill was still in alarmingly unready shape. Suddenly roared Mr. Ford...