Word: corydon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colt. The saga of "Happy" Chandler has been vividly before the Kentucky electorate for the past eight years. By heart the voters know how he was born to poor parents in Corydon, how his mother left his father in 1902 when Happy was four,* how he sold newspapers and did odd jobs while getting through high school. A 170-pounder, 5 ft. 10½ in., compact and fast on his feet, enormously cheerful and energetic, he arrived at Lexington to enter Transylvania College with "a red sweater, a $5 bill and a smile." He got a job in a laundry...
...Lieutenant-Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler famed for, his random generosity in creating 644 Kentucky colonels in 25 days as acting Governor, went on a business trip to Jacksonville, Fla. While there he hoped to locate the grave of his mother. When he was a moppet of four in Corydon, Ky. his mother had run away from her husband and two children, married a man in Evansville, Ind. named Fortune. She went to Florida and after Fortune's death married a man named Chamberlin. At the time of his brother's death by a fall from a cherry...
Sunny's Cloud. For some years the 25 service stations of Sunny Service Oil Co. have undersold national oil companies in Detroit. Last week Col. Walter Corydon Cole of Union League Club of Michigan accused Sunny Service of buying gasoline from U. S. S. R. at 3½? a gallon, "laid down" in Detroit. That is only a fraction more than mere transport charges of gasoline from Texas to Detroit...