Word: chandlerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While other Senators joined the hue & cry. Majority Leader Barkley got in touch with Harry Hopkins. That very day the campaign manager of Governor "Happy" Chandler of Kentucky (a candidate this year for Barkley's Senate seat) had published a letter to President Roosevelt in which he charged, with affidavits to match, that WPA jobs in Kentucky were only for Barkley voters. Said Mr. Barkley, specially anxious to quell the storm of poll-priming indignation...
Southern California journalism is dominated by two aged titans, William Randolph Hearst (Los Angeles Examiner and Herald and Express) and Harry Chandler (Los Angeles Times'). A lonely liberal voice in the midst of this die-hard desert is the little Hollywood Citizen-News, published by a pious progressive from Minnesota, Judge Harlan Guyant Palmer. Publisher Palmer likes the New Deal, dislikes the utilities...
English 40--English literature from 1700 to 1798. A key course and lots of reading, but Chandler coordinates well...
English 85--Chandler good on prose style, Hillyer wobbly on verse...
...Kentucky Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley's campaign for re-election against ambitious Governor "Happy" Chandler-it began last January with a testimonial banquet at which his supporters read a forthright letter of endorsement from the President-was proceeding with active White House support. It was indicated that the President himself might make a Barkley speech in Kentucky after attending the 75th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Gettysburg...