Word: laffoon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senate, he began campaigning for Lieutenant Governor. Theme song: Sonny Boy. At the 1931 State convention, he was nominated despite potent opposition by obtaining a last-minute switch of the Louisville delegation. His campaign for Governor began as soon as he started presiding over the Senate. Whenever Governor Ruby Laffoon left the State, Lieutenant Governor Happy played Governor. Among other smart tricks, he made Jim Farley and the late Louis Howe honorary colonels...
When he fought and beat Governor Laffoon's sales tax, Laffoon got a bill through stripping the Lieutenant Governor of his powers, then rammed the sales tax through. Happy seized upon it as a prime issue of his campaign for Governor...
...Laffoon wanted a nominating convention that year, despite Franklin Roosevelt's request for a primary. Happy waited until Laffoon left the State, then called a special session of the Legislature, to order a primary. Furious, Laffoon got it made a double primary, calling for a run-off between the two leading candidates. His man. Thomas Rhea, won the first round but Happy won the runoff, then threw himself into an election campaign that took him into every Kentucky hamlet from Big Sandy to Mills Point. Aided by Senator Barkley and Franklin Roosevelt's prestige, he beat Judge King...
...Gene Sarazen: the $10,000 Chicago Open; 290 to 291 for Harry Cooper, Horton Smith and Ky Laffoon, over the Medinah Country Club course; at Chicago. Also entered but not among the 86 who qualified for the last day's play were: prodigious u-year-old Donald Dunkelberger of High Point N. C.; one-armed Jimmy Nichols, who swings backhanded, easily drives 250 yards; Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, 1932 Olympic track star, now a professional golfer...
...never been less than i down since the third, just failed to hole a 20-yd. chip shot he needed to keep the match alive. The match was not the climax of the tournament because the final the following day, between Shute and McSpaden, who had nosed out Laffoon, turned out to be as bitterly contested as any engagement in the P. G. A.'s earnest and efficient history. McSpaden led by three holes after the first five, Shute by three holes after the first 1 8. In the afternoon, McSpaden worked his way back to a lead...