Word: governorships
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...life, would be a beginning. Emphasis in such a course should be on the methods, in actual fact and example, of becoming a State Senator; then of what happens, in actual fact and example, to the money voted for "pork"; then how it is possible to proceed to a governorship, or boss-ship, or place of responsibility of power; and so forth, with biographies, facts and examples at every point...
...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...
...powder and cotton seed oil, he married a girl who won a cake-baking contest which he staged. After seven months study of the law, he was a lawyer, wangled himself a job on Louisiana's Railway Commission, and began building up a political following. He made the Governorship in 1928. In short time an effort was made to impeach him, but in vain. He "reached" 15 Senators, enough to forestall his ousting, and from that time on no one in Louisiana could stand against him. After he had himself elected to the U. S. Senate, he refused...
...Socialists asked and got the head of Prefect Chiappe as the price of their support of the luckless Daladier government. Prefect Chiappe was forced to resign. To keep him quiet Premier Daladier reached deep into his plum bag for one of the juiciest of all French administrative posts-the Governorship of Morocco. Still gambling on his popularity in Paris, Jean Chiappe turned the offer down...
...years the Howells and the Grays have battled fiercely. In 1924 Editor Cohen marched boldly into a Klan-dominated State Democratic Convention, marched out with Publisher Howell's job as national committeeman. The election of Howell-backed Talmadge to the governorship forced the Journal into a political back seat, widened the No Man's Land between the publishers. So savagely did the Journal attack Governor Talmadge last summer that that "cracker" politician angrily referred to Editor Cohen as "Jake the Jew,"* urged his supporters to cancel their Journal subscriptions, switch to the Constitution. Crowning outrage to the Grays...