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Accompanied by Jerry ("Jerry the Greek") Luvadis, his rubber and body servant, and Leonard Sacks, his smooth spoken Hollywood secretary and business manager, Dempsey left to continue his tour in Louisville, Ky. (where Governor Ruby Laffoon was to give him the rank of Colonel on the Governor's staff), and Dayton, Ohio. Since he started his series of exhibition bouts last August, he has attracted record crowds on most of his appearances, won all his fights except last week's, scored 26 knockouts and earned $200,000, of which he has spent half...
Next day 62-year-old Ruby Laffoon, oldtime lawyer and judge, presented himself on the Capitol esplanade to take the Governor's oath. Tall (6 ft.), solid (180 lb.), with crow's feet around kindly eyes, big mouth and a booming bass voice, Democrat Laffoon had won last month's election in no small measure by his ability to put names to faces. He first met Grover Cleveland when as a lad he had marched into the White House with a paper which he doggedly refused to give to any one but the President himself...
...Laffoon's face twitched with emotion as he raised one hand to swear, rested the other on a Bible opened at: "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God." In his inaugural address he promised more road building, economy, better schools. Republican Sampson by his side premised him "unstinted support," added: "We who love Kentucky realize one of the most outstanding needs is a moratorium on selfish, low, mean, part politics.""Both the Laffoon and the Sampson feet ached before...
...PILOT LAFFOON...