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...influential father, Oakland Tribune Publisher Joseph R. Knowland. Young Knowland had had an unspectacular career as state assemblyman and senator, had done better as executive committee chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was an assistant publisher of the Tribune, the father of three, and an indefatigable joiner and organizer of charity drives. Drafted into the Army in 1942, he had risen to the rank of major...
...tireless joiner, public speaker and partygoer, Palmer Hoyt gets around like no other Oregonian. He drinks his whiskey and gobbles his vitamin pills with equal gusto. His appetite for civic wheelhorsing has never been sated. He helped bring Henry Kaiser to Portland. As Oregon's first War Bond director, he put the state at the head of the U.S. in sales. His methods became the pattern for the national bond drives. In 1943 Hoyt slaved for six months as OWI's domestic director, fought hard to keep war news flowing free from needless and petty censorship...
Asano, apparently a "joiner" in college (he was a member of Hasty Pudding, Phoenix, Stylus, the Kalumet Club, the OK Society, and the Western Club, among others), rose from a job as a private secretary to a position at the head of the Tsurmi Steel and Shipbuilding Company. He counts banking, trading, water power developing, and the motion picture industry among his other occupations...
...Then she put him in the first grade at public school. She had taught him so well that by afternoon he had been promoted to fifth grade. He spent his last school year at fashionable St. George's School in Newport. At Harvard he turned into a joiner and a doer...
...sharp-nosed Major was young, had been a G.I. (drafted in 1942), had served six years in the state legislature (where he blocked a pardon for Tom Mooney in 1937), was married, had three children, had been an A-1-A joiner and charity-drive organizer. Besides, the Major was a good Republican, had served on the state central committee, finally becoming the state's national committeeman and chairman of the G.O.P. national executive committee. In short, said Warren, he had screened all the candidates and concluded the Major was just...