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...Raisa of Chicago Civic Opera Company revealed that since last summer she has been constantly guarded by armed escorts because blackmailers demanded $500. Their threat: "To put you in a cellar where an asp will drink ten gallons of your blood." Motoring near Vallejo, Calif. Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., wearing his customary high boots, waded into a muddy slough to help extricate two women whose automobile had skidded from the highway...
...Pausing from his potato-peeling in San Quentin prison, Thomas Mooney said that he was convinced that Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of California would not grant him the pardon for which Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York went 3,000 mi. to beg last month. "Not a chance," said Prisoner Mooney, on the eve of his sixteenth Christmas behind bars since he and Warren K. Billings were convicted of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day parade. "Powers of business and politics will dictate Governor Rolph's decision. ... It looks as though I would...
...metal from the Press of California and particularly of San Francisco, where he arrived last week to agitate "as a private citizen" for a pardon for Thomas Mooney. As he got off the Oakland ferry, Mayor Angelo Rossi and Mayor Walker's old friend Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. seemed glad enough to see him. A band perched in a truck played "The Sidewalks of New York" and the Governor's jaunty theme song "Happy Days Are Here Again."Noisy crowds shouted cheerful impertinences. Mrs. Mary Mooney, 80, mother of Prisoner Mooney who was convicted along with...
Next day Mayor Walker announced that he would go to California not as the Biggest City's chief executive, but as a private citizen and lawyer to defend aged Mary Mooney's son Thomas, at a hearing before Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. in San Francisco. Jovial Sunny Jim, instead of taking offense at what might have seemed an unwarranted intrusion upon California's affairs, said he would be glad to see his wisecracking little friend once more. He telephoned the Adjutant General's office to have the militia fire a salute as Mayor Walker...
...Reno's 'boy bishop,' Parents have always warned their children that they should be seen but not heard." He busied himself meeting and talking with his welcomers. Among them were Nevada's Governor Fredrick Bennett Balzar, California's Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., Reno's Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts, Justice Edward Ducker of the Nevada Supreme Court, onetime District Attorney William Boyle, Divorce Lawyer Patrick McHarran...