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...walks with fast, seven-league strides which seem to symbolize his driving ambition and dedication to work. His well-written speeches are delivered in the unmodulated, protesting tone of an overworked undertaker. To reporters, he speaks largely in pompous platitudes. He does not smoke, is a Methodist and a joiner (a Mason, an Eagle, a Moose, and a Native Son of the Golden West...
...literary world of the '203 and '303, the most comical character on the U.S. scene was the hale & hearty joiner who slapped his fellow businessmen on the back at service-club luncheons and addressed total strangers as "Tom," "Dick" or "Harry." Sinclair Lewis called him "Babbitt," H. L. Mencken called him "boob," and many another writer dismissed him simply as "a Rotarian...
...drought-stricken Texas last week, a dust storm blew up over the Government's $150-million emergency relief program. In his weekly Rails Banner, Editor Ernest Joiner declared: "Fully half of the aid given here has gone into the hands of wealthy men. This writer, for one, is damned tired of his hard-earned money going into the pockets of wealthy...
...Joiner. In Laramie, Wyo., a college student waiting in court to pay a parking fine sat near a group of three men, obediently stood up with them and raised his right hand at Judge Frank Collican's order, was thus sworn in as a new policeman...
...Joiner. In Hutchinson, Kans., Jeweler Glenn Brown caught a bad-check artist who casually remarked that he was both a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Masons...