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...businessman. He writes that the "Alger pattern ... is unmistakably" apparent in his own life. His penniless, work-filled boyhood taught him that competition is the soul of every game, that competitive effort involves an immense cooperative effort, that communities and individuals boom together. "I plead guilty of being a Kiwanian," he declares, "sharing all the sins of extrovert good fellowship, self-improvement and community spirit which the so-called intellectuals love to lampoon. ... I see no hypocrisy in concern for the general good coupled with an interest in private advancement...
...lumberman, had it. He had it to such a powerful degree that he attracted the nose of Governor Henry Horner in 1936. The Governor was out for reelection, and the powerful Kelly-Nash machine was out to stop him. It was backslapping, 44-year-old Lyn Smith, a Kiwanian, Mason, Shriner. Elk, World War veteran, whom Henry Horner chose to manage his campaign downstate. Mr. Smith's reward for helping Horner win was the directorship of the State Department of Public Works...
...forgot Birmingham's cast-iron pride were John Henry Adams, author of the grandiloquent inscription, and Thomas Joy. As a child Thomas Joy sold the first newspaper ever to appear on the streets of Birmingham, later became a charter member of the local Kiwanis Club. Moving to Chicago Kiwanian Joy was immensely successful as a construction engineer, put up some $20,000,000 worth of buildings, finally retired to spend the rest of his life in his native Birmingham. Proud Kiwanians were anxious to gather him back in the fold, but Engineer Joy's ideas had changed...
...Important members of the N. A. M.: General Electric Co., International Harvester Co., Packard Motor Car Co. Mr. Edgerton is also president of the Lebanon (Tenn.) Woolen Mills, trustee of Vanderbilt University, trustee of Martin College (Pulaski, Tenn.), a Democrat, a Kiwanian, a Rotarian, a Southern Methodist...
...from ridiculing Marion, Editor Anderson's friends have succumbed to his civic zeal. They have read, for example, his editorials exhorting Marion to support its Kiwanis band. Marion was flattered when Manhattan's great Otto Hermann Kahn, no Kiwanian, sent a check...