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...furnishings of the home of the late great Mrs. Whitelaw Reid (New York Herald Tribune), a Gainsborough portrait brought $5,100, a pair of 16th Century Brussels tapestries, $8,000, the entire collection, $155,897.50. Following a threat on the life of Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon, two guardsmen were placed on patrol duty between the executive mansion and the State Capitol at Frankfort. Said Governor Laffoon : "If I get a few minutes notice before anyone starts shooting. I'll outrun any of them in spite of my game leg."* In Manhattan Bibliophile Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach paid...
...Because Governor Laffoon has suffered from infirmary from tuberculosis arthritis of the right kneejoint, he uses a cane...
...purse. In addition, jubilant Mrs. Sloane, first woman to win the Derby since Mrs. Payne Whitney's victory with Twenty Grand (1931) was taken down to the judges' stand to receive the $5,000 gold trophy. Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley made appropriate remarks. Bumbling Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky said it gave him "inexpress-, inexp- unexplainable pleasure" to present the cup. He then turned to the microphone, urged everybody to come to Kentucky on Labor Day to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of that great Kentuckian, that great friend of horses, "Dan'l Boone...
Last December when the 18th Amendment was tossed into the political bonfire, Kentucky, hardest of hard liquor states, did not repeal its prohibition law. Last week it was still unrepealed when Governor Ruby Laffoon signed a new law regarding the sale of medicinal liquor. Two ways were provided for obtaining it. (1) On prescriptions written by doctors (without limit). (2) On prescriptions which any person over 21 may write for himself, if he declares "I am not addicted to the habit of drink and have not within six months prior hereto, been convicted of drunkenness...
...angry. For four years during the 1920's they had a co-operative but it broke up when growers ceased to cooperate. During that time "nightriders" had killed some non-co-operators, destroyed the crops of others, smashed their windows. Kentucky growers threatened to start nightriding again. Governor Laffoon proclaimed a holiday. The Governors of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina followed suit in an effort to do for "burley" what a holiday had done for "bright...