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...Last week were reported the Eastman Kodak Co.'s 1927 profits-$20,142,161. President of the company is William G. Stuber, whom Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky has just made a colonel on his official staff. Will Rogers, critic of U. S. mores, is a colonel on the same staff...
...Robert Malachi Crowe, lecherous Negro, was the villain. His Tribune want ad called for the services of a nurse. A Ruth Sampson answered the ad, and her he assaulted. Then he disappeared. The attack made an excellent Tribune story; the Negro's arrest would make another. But best for the paper's business office, if he were caught, would be the well-spread cry: The Tribune guarantees the integrity of even its want ads. . . . Truth among the agate lines...
...front of the million-dollar state capitol at Frankfort, Kentucky changed governors midstream. Out went Governor William J. Fields, Democrat. In came Governor Flem D. Sampson, Republican. So freakish had been Kentucky's political currents that Republican Governor Sampson entered office with a Democratic Lieutenant Governor (James Breathitt Jr.) and a departmental staff which is Democratic to a man. Soon a Democratic legislature will convene. Surrounded by Democratic Philistines, Governor Sampson was not, however, shorn by a Democratic Delilah. Hampered in obtaining legislation, he can still veto legislation. Governor Sampson was elected because Governor Fields wanted to smash...
...Governor Sampson held an inaugural ball at the executive mansion, where dancing had been forbidden all during the Fields administration...
Kentucky. Flem D. Sampson, Republican, stood for retaining "pari-mutuel"*betting machines at racetracks. J. C. W. Beckham, Democrat, onetime (1915-21) U. S. Senator and onetime (1900-07) Governor, stood against mechanical, state-supervised betting, for private bookmaking. Each wanted to be Kentucky's Governor. Kentucky had a hard time deciding, but chose Mr. Sampson and the betting machines. Governor-elect Sampson announced that he would appoint none of his kin to office; that he who has three daughters,† would revoke Governor William J. Field's present rule against dancing in the executive mansion...