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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prancy as a Blue Grass colt, "Happy" Chandler is a natural politician. In politics he has the easy grace of Joe DiMaggio coasting under a long fly-ball, the same talent of making the tough ones look easy. To him handshaking is not a nuisance but a passionate delight. He knows the first name (and even the children's names) of nearly every person in Kentucky of voting age-not just because it's good political business, but because he likes to know. To him speechmaking is no grave statement of solemn issues, but a chance to play...
...Thomas Benton (see cut, p. 31), calling up the hard-eyed, banjo-playing, riverboat life of the Central South; the innocent art of John Kane, who put the steel mills and freight trains of Pittsburgh on canvas for the first time and who took machinery in his stride. "Look at those trains!" he said, as he painted Turtle Creek Valley with the green hills and the red brick houses in the background, beyond the smoky railroad yards. "Look at those trains, gaily defying me to paint them right...
...Tuesday night Bird went to the Boston railroad yards to look the ground over and found that, unlike the South, New England box cars are kept locked; consequently he was forced to ride on top or beneath...
...public ownership should always turn out Louisville-style, the sooner the U. S. public could forget about it the better off it would be. But this week, while doubtful Louisville citizens could look south into the TVA area and wonder how the greatest public ownership project in U. S. history would turn out, they could look west to plushy, conservative Colorado Springs, Colo., and see how one public ownership enterprise did turn out. For Colorado Springs (pop. 35,000) had just paid off the last $181,000 of the $2,200,000 debt it assumed when it began city operation...
...glad to see you look so fine...