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...Francisco lay California's Governor James Rolph. infected at Sacramento. Ill in Manhattan lay Howard Scott, Chief Technocrat, whose wife (Eleanor Steele) attributes his disability to Technocracy...
...heard any returns yet. It was midday. He was only trying to thank a group of neighbors and admirers who had come up the hill to pay their respects. He had come into the State during the night, been met in the morning at Sacramento by Governor Rolph, getting off his train at Oakland to ferry across San Francisco Bay amid a din of factory and boat whistles, roaring airplanes, booming guns on the Presidio. The sidewalks of Market Street were packed solidly with cheering populace as his cortége moved through. At the civic centre Herbert Hoover went...
...press of a button by Governor Rolph in California, a plane despatcher at Newark Airport, N. J. waved his red flag one night last week at a Ford tri-motor, just christened The Comet. (Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh who had been expected to act as despatcher watched from the background.) Pilot Robert Le Roy raced his idling motors, taxied across the floodlit field; The Comet roared up into the western night. Next evening it alighted in Los Angeles...
Died. George Morrison Rolph, 59, one-time president of California & Hawaiian Sugar Refining Corporation, Ltd., brother of Governor James Rolph Jr. of California; of apoplexy; in San Francisco. During the War Herbert Hoover appointed him head of the Sugar Equalization Board, which he made selfsupporting, returning a $30,000,000 surplus to the Government...
...Adamic; an account of the witlessness of book publishers; a behind-scenes political review by Robert S. Allen, one of the authors of The Washington Merry-Go-Round; a dispassionate report of Harlan, Ky. mine disorders by Eve Garrette Grady; a sketch of California's Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph; bits of verse; an estimate of the late Ivar Kreuger; a revelation that cowboys on dude ranches sometimes make love to attractive feminine guests; a review of the wrestling racket...