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...named Henry F. Budde. Little Mr. Budde is the publisher of some weekly throwaways ("You can't cancel your subscription, he'll just throw it in your goddam living room") and a paper for municipal employes. He had been a salaryless park commissioner under Mayor Angelo Rossi; Lapham did not reappoint him. More recently Budde had tried to start a "Dimes for Manila" drive; Lapham had declined to push it. Perky Mr. Budde reacted with the fury of a pinto with a burr under its tail. He circulated a petition for a vote to boot out such...
...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...
...Rossi celebrated the opening of the Great Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. But he also presided, without honor, at San Francisco's greatest labor fight, the 1934 general strike. Out of that trouble came the name of Harry Bridges, boss of the West Coast longshoremen...
...Duke") Hedman, who had shot down six Japs, and had flown the Hump 350 times, had an unemployed $10,000. Joe Rosbert (six Jap planes), who once crashed in the Himalayas and walked out in 46 days, threw in $10,000, took a job as chief pilot. J.R. ("Dick") Rossi, also a six-plane man, got his letter in India after his 600th Hump crossing. Wrote Prescott: "Rossi, put that drink in your left hand and tell me what you're doing." Rossi joined...
...York Congressman got a letter from a constituent who complained that his corporal always woke up the whole hut when he had to rouse one soldier. "Sir," concluded the constituent, "I would like to have someone do something about him." Autobiographer. In Wethersfield, Conn., Nicholas A. Rossi, a writer of mur der mysteries, was executed for murder...