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California's Sun God
Aikman, Duncan | January 14, 1931 issue

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This article focuses on the new U.S. State Governor Jimmy Rolph. There is, one recognizes, a certain metaphorical recklessness about comparing any American State governor to sunlight. But Jimmy Rolph promises to be uniquely luminous. It is not only that, judging by his nineteen years' reign as mayor of San Francisco, he radiates rather than governs. He sheds also many of the beneficial effects of solar radiation, cheerfulness, goodwill, the sense that the world is full of gay and decent fellows regardless of minor differences of customs and opinion, the energy to live merrily in one's own way and the tolerance to let others do likewise.

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ROLPH, Jimmy; GOVERNORS; PUBLIC officers; CONDUCT of life; OPTIMISM; UNITED States
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