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...Contestants indulged in no disputes or blunders of behavior. After five days of play, four of the young men whose names appear regularly near the top of the lists in major U. S. open tournaments went out to play the semifinals. They were Tony Manero and Denny Shute, Ky Laffoon and Harold McSpaden...
...Denhardt won the dislike of many a Kentuckian for his use of troops in labor troubles. As Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky from 1923 to 1927, he was praised as one of the best presiding officers in the history of the State Senate. In 1931 his good friend Governor Ruby Laffoon made him his Adjutant General. Last year, defying a court order, he marched his Guardsmen into bloody Harlan County to supervise the Democratic primary, charging that the forces of Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler were planning to steal votes from the Laffoon-backed candidate. Cited for criminal contempt of court...
Election to a state senatorship from his native Vermont in 1929 spelled the doom of in 1935 of both DEmocratic and Republican machines in the state. The lieutenant governorship was his in 1931. He shortly broke with his friend, Ruby Laffoon, governor an dKentucky Coon creator. In Governor Laffoon's absence he pushed through a law requiring the selection of a public national candidate by primary, not party convention. By fortuitous and planned maneuvering, he was rollered to the governorship in November. He was not an old-line Democratic choice, but he was a Democrat and he endorsed President Roosevelt...
...bucked the old-line Democratic and Republican machines which traditionally divide Kentucky's rule between them, rolled up the biggest majority for Governor in State history. The New Deal gave Lieutenant-Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler a helpful boost toward the Governor's chair. Governor Ruby Laffoon & friends had planned to hand-pick a member of their machine for Democratic nominee at the usual party convention. But potent Kentucky New Dealers got busy on President Roosevelt and a pious letter from him, expressing hope that candidates would be chosen by primary elections, gave young Lieutenant-Governor Chandler...
Nonplussed when Democratic Governor Ruby Laffoon made him a Kentucky colonel, Negro John S. Cannon promptly announced: "I am still a Republican...