Word: chandlerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Ruby Laffoon was Governor of Kentucky in 1934, he stayed the execution of Murderer Sylvester Warner, 24, to study his case. Fourteen months passed, "Happy" Chandler succeeded Ruby Laffoon. Years passed, 25 other prisoners marched to their doom, and still Murderer Warner, forgotten, waited in the death house. Last week Governor Chandler got around to a decision, said Warner must die this week as planned five years...
...hard match at 121 against John Landerth of the Midshipmen, but two overtime periods failed to earn a decision for either man. It is conceivable that under more favorable conditions of traveling, Ross might have won. At 136, Ted Schoenberg once more showed his ability as he held Charlie Chandler of the Middies to a decision...
Members of his committee include William N. Chandler '41, McCrea H. Cobb '39, Henry P. Day '41, William H. McElwain '41, Douglas Mercer '40, Jere J. Nelson '41, Hamlin D. Smith '41, and Prescott H. Wellman...
...Politics-in-Relief, he added a clause making it illegal for any person to solicit campaign money from any Government employe, local, State or Federal, any part of whose pay comes from a Congressional appropriation. This was in memory of the Federal-aid highway men with whom Governor "Happy" Chandler so bitterly fought Mr. Barkley for Kentucky's nomination last summer...
...page from his past which may embarrass him: his report to Harry Hopkins last June after a flying visit to Kentucky, saying that he found no evidence of political improprieties by WPAsters in the notorious Barkley-Chandler primary brawl...