Not only was the mid-season switch unusual, but Durocher had been accused of gambling in 1947 and subsequently suspended for the entire 1947 season by Baseball Commissioner Albert " Happy " Chandler.

* Albert Benjamin " Happy " Chandler, Sr .- Baseball commissioner and Kentucky governor

* Albert Benjamin " Happy " Chandler, U. S. Senator, Governor of Kentucky, Commissioner of Major League Baseball

* Happy Chandler, Kentucky Governor and Commissioner of Baseball

On the death of Happy Chandler, Stassen became the oldest governor of any U. S. state still living.

Happy Chandler created greater efficiency in state government under the Reorganization Act of 1936.

During his second term in office, Happy Chandler issued an executive order creating a merit system that forbade the hiring or firing of state employees for political reasons ; his successor, Bert T. Combs, pushed a new merit system through the legislature, protecting it from abolition by executive order.

Laffoon's lieutenant governor, Happy Chandler, pushed the legislature to mandate party primaries, which

Seven men have resigned the office of governor before the end of their terms — John J. Crittenden, Beriah Magoffin, John W. Stevenson, Augustus O. Stanley, Happy Chandler, Earle C. Clements, and Wendell H. Ford.

Wallace considered Happy Chandler, the former baseball commissioner and two-term former governor of Kentucky, as his running mate in his 1968 campaign as a third party candidate ; as one of Wallace's aides put it, " We have all the nuts in the country ; we could get some decent people –- you working one side of the street and he working the other side.

The University of Kentucky boasts seven governors, including current Governor of Kentucky Steve Beshear, former Governor of Ohio Ted Strickland, current Governor of North Carolina Beverly Perdue, and former governors Ernie Fletcher, Paul E. Patton and Tom Jefferson Terral, and former governor, U. S. Senator and Commissioner of Major League Baseball Albert " Happy " Chandler.

In, he succeeded Happy Chandler as commissioner of baseball.

His successor, Happy Chandler, said, " For twenty-four years Judge Landis wouldn't let a black man play.

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Albert Benjamin " Happy " Chandler, Sr. ( July 14, 1898June 15, 1991 ) was a politician from the US state of Kentucky.

Twenty years after first holding the governorship, Chandler again entered the gubernatorial race in 1955 using the slogan " Be like your Pappy and vote for Happy ".

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* June 5 – MLB Commissioner Happy Chandler lifts the ban on all players who jumped to the Mexican League, starting in 1946.

* January 29 – Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, and Phillies $ 500 each for signing high school players.

* June 15 – when some ballplayers jump to the Mexican League, MLB Commissioner Happy Chandler mentions a lifetime suspension for them, but his penalty is later reduced ( 1949 ).

" Happy " Chandler, was hurt in the closing days of the campaign when a third challenger, businessman Bruce Lunsford dropped out of the race and endorsed Richards.

It was originally one of between 50 to 70 verses of a song titled " Jerusalem, My Happy Home " that first appeared in a 1790 book called A Collection of Sacred Ballads:

In September 2010, IKEA launched an advertisement for UK & Ireland called " Happy Inside " which had 100 cats lying on IKEA furniture in the flagship IKEA store in Wembley, London.

** In New York City, a fire due to arson at an illegal social club called " Happy Land " kills 87.

Gilbert had written an earlier work called Happy Arcadia.

The fiftieth Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel Happy Endings by Paul Cornell features a Polari-speaking Silurian musical duo from the 30th century called Jacquilian and Sanki.

In 1974 Whitfield starred in a Comedy Playhouse sitcom pilot called Happy Ever After again alongside Scott.

Crisp's last role was in an independent film called American Mod ( 1999 ), and his last full-feature movie was HomoHeights ( also released as Happy Heights, 1996 ).

Prior to this episode, Rod Serling had written an episode called " The Happy Place " as the pilot for his new series.

When the Chicago and Alton Railroad connected with the Kansas City branch at Roodhouse, Hillview was a lumber camp called Happy Ville.

Happy Valley was originally called Christilla Valley, named after the first residents, Christian and Matilda Deardorff.

In 2006, a non-profit corporation, called the Friends of Happy Retreat, Inc. ( FOHR ), purchased an option to buy the former home of Charles Washington outright.

In November 2007 a special tribute programme was shown on ITV in the UK celebrating 60 years of the organisation called ' Happy Birthday BAFTA '.

The episode was so popular that it led to Happy Days ' second series spin-off ( the first being Laverne and Shirley ) called Mork & Mindy.

In the late 1990s, a touring arena show called Happy Days, The Arena Spectacular toured Australia's major cities.

Early twentieth century recordings and writings most often refer to the style as " Yiddish " music, although it is also sometimes called Freilech music ( Yiddish, literally " Happy music ").

Bø has several times been called " the most beautiful place on earth " in modern literature, among others in Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's story, En glad Gut (" A Happy Boy ").

He drives her to a run-down motel owned by middle-aged female ex-vaudevillian called Happy ( Kay Medford ).

It's a cover of a song called “ Washington Parks ” by I think Happy Monster but it's pretty sweet.

" Taking an early interest in drama, he worked with Clive Anderson to write, in 1970, a charity revue called Happy Poison.

on Sesame Street playing a reworked version of " Shiny Happy People " called " Furry Happy Monsters ", and appeared in an episode of The Simpsons titled " Homer the Moe ", where R. E. M.

The Rites of Spring personnel reunited for a quasi-reincarnation called Happy Go Licky, releasing an LP / CD of various live concert recordings though never producing any studio work.

A tree filled with snakes, a carousel, antique cars, koi pond, children's playground ( called Kiddie Kingdom ,) petting zoo ( named Happy Feeling ) and a restaurant named Gingerbread Fancy ( now Granny's Country Kitchen ) were also borrowed from the floral park concept to create a section of The Enchanted Forest.

Trace Adkins released a song written by Kane called " Happy Man " on his 2010 album, Cowboy's Back in Town.