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Matthew Neely is 75, a spouter of purple poetry and a wearer of tweed suits which come in shades of lemon and green. A veteran of the Spanish-American War, and a tireless joiner (Elk, Moose, Odd Fellow, Mason), Matt Neely is an ex-Congressman from West Virginia, served a term as governor of his state, is now in his fourth term as U.S. Senator. On the record, Senator Neely is a politician...
...machine-turned votes. They were Horace Edwards, 46, former mayor of Richmond, who broke with the machine last year when Byrd tried to keep Harry Truman's name off Virginia's ballot ; and Remmie L. Arnold, a pen & pencil maker and inveterate "joiner" (he is slated to become Imperial Potentate of the Shrine...
Exalted Ruler. The junior partner of Steptoe & Johnson, a joiner of joiners, was soon president of the Clarksburg Rotary, Exalted Ruler of the Elks, a rising leader of the American Legion...
...Joiner. Flamboyant Louis Johnson, 58, has been performing such useful chores ever since he first hung out his law shingle in Clarksburg, W. Va. 37 years ago. At 26 he was the Democratic majority floor leader of the West Virginia House of Delegates. He returned from World War I as an infantry captain, soon became a $40,000-a-year corporation lawyer. But he never strayed far from politics...
Glad-handing Louis Johnson was a big joiner; he became Exalted Ruler of the Elks, president of Rotary, national commander of the American Legion. In the Legion he first came to Franklin Roosevelt's notice by silencing a Legion outcry when Roosevelt cut veterans' pensions in 1933. After ex-Governor Harry Woodring of Kansas became Secretary of War in 1936, Roosevelt called fire-eating Louis Johnson in as his assistant, in charge of all procurement and industrial mobilization...