Word: cooperates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cooper's opponent for the Barkley seat is Lawrence Wetherby, also a former Kentucky governor (1950-55). But Wetherby is a lackadaisical campaigner who is also being dogged by his own governor, fellow Democrat and worst enemy, Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler. Since last June, when he defeated the Clements-Wetherby machine in a bitter fight over control of the state party, Happy has been as determined as ever to wreck Wetherby's cause. Although Happycrat Chandler now denies that he is ready to sling a monkey wrench at his own party, his monkeyshines prove otherwise...
Shenanigans & Sour Mash. Happy's shenanigans will probably have little effect on the Clements-Morton battle, in which even Republicans concede that Earle can more than take care of himself. But in Wetherby's case, where help is sorely needed, Happy's tactics are hurting, and Cooper is leading...
...candidates who prominently shared the spotlight with Dwight Eisenhower when the President flew down to Lexington last week looked more like State Department types than Kentucky politicians. Actually they are both: former U.S. Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper, dignified and urbane, is running for the four-year unexpired Senate term of the late Alben Barkley; Thruston (pronounced throo-ston) B. Morton, clean-cut and sharp, was John Foster Dulles' assistant for congressional relations before he decided to oppose Democratic Incumbent Earle Clements for Kentucky's second seat...
Peeps & Points. Striking northwest from Lexington, John Sherman Cooper, 55, tramped through solid Democratic counties, e.g., Scott, Henry, Carroll and Owen ("I've always gotten more applause than votes in these parts"), shaking hands. Men were interested in his grave, quiet manner, women in his good looks and unfailing courtesy. Often he walked into beauty parlors, peeped under hair dryers, introduced himself to the surprised clients thereunder, explaining: "I need your vote." Popular as he is, Yaleman Cooper is regarded by some of the Kentucky Old Guard as being "too progressive" and distinctly a member of the party...
...Cooper's fellow Republican, however, had a tougher hill to climb. Former U.S. Congressman Thruston Ballard Morton, 49, also a Yaleman, astonished politicos in Kentucky's normally Democratic Third District (Louisville) by winning three successive terms to the House (1947-52), but he is virtually unknown outside the district. In the backwoods mining settlements of "Bloody Harlan" County, the mountaineers did not take kindly to the "furriner" with the citified manners and precise diction. But Kentucky's strongly TVA-minded citizens nonetheless liked the way that Morton frankly tackled questions on such local boiling points as Dixon...