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Glad Hands. In 1911 "Sunny Jim" Rolph sailed into the mayoralty in a ten-gallon hat and polished cowboy boots. He stayed there for 19 years, and in those years the city grew up. Up climbed the buildings. Up climbed industry, shipping, finances, while "Sunny Jim" ran things with a glad hand. When "Sunny Jim" left to become governor, he passed the mayoralty to Florist Angelo Rossi, who sailed into office with a carnation in his lapel...
Lapham has restored the confidence of San Franciscans in city government. Handsome, black-bearded Eugene Schmitz left an odor behind him that 19 years of Rolph and twelve years of Florist Rossi, honest as they were, never quite dispelled. Even Lapham's loudest critics admit his courage and integrity, and agree that he has raised the mayoralty to a high plane. Lapham himself is waiting for the voters' decision on July 16 with considerable suspense. He takes pride in his job. He wants more than anything else to go on serving San Francisco until...
Earl Kelly believes and says that the Republican Party should be frankly conservative, and no nonsense about it. A hearty, well-barbered Irishman with a fine baritone voice, he learned the political ropes as highway commissioner and director of public works under Republican Governors Rolph and Merriam. Just before Merriam was beaten for re-election in 1938, he joined the Bank of America as a vice president. Last spring he started an investment banking firm of his own (First California Co.). He will run far governor, he said, if "support lines up for a real business leadership...
Looking at his service record and the classic sergeant's face that went with it, the Marines signed on Rolph again...
...Staff Sergeant Rolph retired, married the daughter of a Gordon Highlander, and settled down outside London to raise flowers. When the Germans blitzed him out of his home in 1941, William George Rolph walked over to the Marine detachment guarding the U.S. Embassy and said he was ready...