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Forty thousand of his fellow citizens thought Wonderboy Smith could boot old Mayor Angelo Rossi out of his job, and signed a petition asking him to try. A good many others thought he would be easy to beat. Smart Paul Smith had a private poll taken and convinced himself he had a chance. Three hundred and fifty-six people who work for the Chronicle signed another petition begging him to stay on. So the 30-year-old, pint-size, freckle-faced boss of Mark Twain's and Bret Harte's paper decided to stick...
...Executive Council of Eire, who prophesied: "I don't think there's a ghost of a chance of Ireland's fighting for anyone if she can get out of it"; Nicaragua's burly President-Dictator Anastasio Somoza; San Francisco's Mayor Angelo J. Rossi; Wooster, Ohio's Mrs. Otelia Compton, 80, whom Mrs. James Rooseveltt decorated as "American Mother of 1939" (her children: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. Karl T. Compton; Washington Attorney Wilson M. Compton; University of Chicago Physics Professor Dr. Arthur Compton; Mrs. Herbert Compton Rice, principal of Christian College...
Planners. A real estate man named Joe Dixon (who got a season pass to the fair for his pains) started the whole show exactly six years ago with a letter to the San Francisco News. Oilmen, steelmen and Mayor Angelo J. Rossi got behind Mr. Dixon's original idea, which was to celebrate completion of San Francisco's two great bridges. Chosen president of the fair corporation was Leland W. Cutler, who is no gardenia-fragrant showman like New York's Grover Aloysius Whalen,* yet is just as sound a financier and heady planner. An engineer named...
...Francisco, he surprised Mayor Angelo Rossi by having 200 New York policemen, 250 New York firemen meet him as an escort, but Mayor Rossi's police insisted on leading the parade. The two Italo-Americans joshed each other about their 1939 world's fairs. Mayor LaGuardia said: "I always feel at home in San Francisco and now I'll feel like I am in San Francisco when I get home. . . . The teamsters have gone on strike in New York...
...Fraser Langford. Stories about him "teaching me navigation and me living in his home are a lot of hooey. . . . The guy . . . started sending me cables to appear in ... night clubs, . . . and him a preacher, at that." Day later, at San Francisco City Hall, beside Mayor Angelo Rossi, he noted the Irishmen on the reception committee (Quinn, Riordan, Casey, Murphy, Reilly) : ". . . From the names ... I figured I was back in Ireland. And here I always thought you were all Eyetalians up here." The crowd tittered uncertainly, then Corrigan said his last word: "You came to laugh at me and I came...