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...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...
...Trufant Foster ("Is Fiat Money Any Worse than Fiat Poverty?"). Among a group who discussed Mr. Foster's article was gloomy Richard Waldo, president of McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Books reviewed included Wages and the Road Ahead by General Motors' James David Mooney, The Dow Theory by Robert Rhea, The Banks and Prosperity by Lionel D. Edie...
...foot- ball all afternoon, threw a 40-yd. pass to a point 4 yd. from the Dartmouth goal line. Harvard's Hageman and Dartmouth's Morton both jumped for the ball. Hageman caught it. Wood kicked the goal that gave Harvard the game, 7 to 6. Hugh Rhea, Nebraska's Ail-American tackle, received a letter signed "Heifer Bovine" offering him "big money" to let Iowa's halfback Hickman through the line for a touchdown. Hugh Rhea snorted indignantly. A 62-yd. march in the third quarter gave Nebraska a touchdown and the game...
...Christ, and to the Divine inspiration and infallibility of the Bible," William Jennings Bryan University was last week chartered to operate as an institution of learning at Dayton, Tenn., scene of its namesake's last triumphs and death. Until buildings are completed, classes will be held at the Rhea County High School. Matriculating students may be of any race, creed or sect, but administrative officers and faculty of the college must be firm believers in Old-time Religion. First President, also an nounced last week: Dr. George E. Guille, longtime extension Bible teacher at Moody Bible Institute, Chicago...
...Pluto was unlucky. Drawing lots with his brothers Jupiter and Neptune (Saturn was their father, Rhea their mother) for the kingdoms of heaven, sea and the infernal regions, Pluto got Hades. Previously named for Pluto: a purgative water, a species of monkey...