Word: chandlerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five Democratic contenders for the Governorship, Governor Ruby Laffoon and his potent machine backed an oldtime politician from Russellville named Thomas S. Rhea. Rhea's chief adversary was young (37), spectacular Lieut. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler of Versailles. Son of a rural mailman, red-headed "Happy" Chandler earned his way at University of Kentucky Law School by leading a jazz band, playing the piano. He coached the Centre College football teams of 1922-27, got himself elected to the State Senate in 1929. There he cultivated Ruby Laffoon, with whom he rode into Frankfort two years later...
Thereafter, "Happy" Chandler seldom did anything that did not land him on local front pages. When he went to Florida to visit the grave of his old mother whom he had not seen in 31 years, he found her very much alive. By assiduously applying the Governor's appointive power every time Ruby Laffoon stepped across the State line, he racked up a grand total of 597 honorary Kentucky Generals, Admirals and Colonels...
After his split with Laffoon, ostensibly over the sales tax which he opposed, Lieut. Governor Chandler last winter slipped a more important stunt over on his absent boss. He rammed through the Legislature a bill creating compulsory party primaries with the high man on each ticket winning the nomination, regardless of the size of his vote. When the Governor got back he rushed through an amendment compelling a run-off primary if the top man did not receive a majority. That proved the Laffoon machine's undoing, for in the August primary Candidate Rhea topped Candidate Chandler...
Last week, as the result of Kentucky's laws which delay from 24 to 48 hours publication of election results, the votes of a rare and restful Democratic primary were officially cast up. "Happy" Chandler, having defeated Candidate Rhea by more than 26,000 votes, was well on his way to becoming the next Governor of Kentucky...
Julian LaRose Harris had the perfect entree to Southern journalism as the son of Joel Chandler ("Uncle Remus") Harris. He cashed in on it so brilliantly that at 23 he was managing editor of Henry Grady's Atlanta Constitution...