Word: rolphing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reader Gilbert refer to the opinion of his own State's Attorney General Ulysses Sigel Webb who, when asked by Mr. Merriam's executive secretary how to sign official papers, held that Mr. Merriam technically was Acting Governor from the moment of Governor Rolph's death to the end of his term. However, the law does not prescribe the form of signature...
...Rossi is of Italian parentage. Born in Volcano, Calif, in 1878, he got his start in life ten years later by delivering flowers in San Francisco, rose to be president of big Pelicano Rossi Floral Co. He got his start in politics in 1914 when the late "Sunny Jim" Rolph, then Mayor of San Francisco, appointed him to the city's Playground Commission. When Mayor Rolph got to be Governor in 1930 he appointed Florist Rossi to the mayoralty. Mayor Rossi survived by a narrow margin an election in 1931 in which the city charter was changed, making...
...Great Divide, weekly affiliate of the Post; of heart disease; in Denver. In Alaska, in 1900, he founded the Ornery and Worthless Men's Club of America. Among members were the late Tex Rickard, Senator Pittman of Nevada, Vice President Garner, Senator Huey Long, the late Governor Rolph of California, all members of the Anti-Saloon League. A close friend of Bonfils, Hoggatt used to amuse him by turning somersaults, slipping his false teeth through his lips and barking like...
...years ago he would have been spared a lot of trouble last week. He taught school, published a newspaper, gravitated from the Midwest to Long Beach. Calif., became a bank president, a realtor, a Knight of Pythias, a politician, and six weeks ago upon the death of James Rolph Jr., Governor of California just in time to face the best brand of California dynamite?a strike...
Died. James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., 64, Governor of California; of a miocardiac disease resulting in kidney complications and congestion of the lungs; on a ranch near San Jose, Calif. Born in San Francisco, he gained fame and friends by organizing relief work after the 1906 earthquake and fire, became Mayor in 1911, served until elected Governor 20 years later. With a political flair similar to that of his friend "Jimmy" Walker, onetime Mayor of New York, he gave lavish parties for visiting notables, made appropriate speeches at prize fights. He always wore high-heeled polished boots (he bought...