Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time he graduated, Louis Johnson had been three-time president of the law school, vice president of the oldest university Y.M.C.A. in the nation, secretary-treasurer of the Civic Club. He was also a crack debater, and a good athlete (boxing and wrestling). To the despair of some classmates (and with the help of a photographic memory), he had also made top grades without even seeming...
...Private Book. After graduation, he found no likely place in Virginia to set up a law practice, so he crossed over into West Virginia, settled in Clarksburg, and set out to run things. Elected to the State House of Delegates, he was made majority floor leader in his first term, at 26. Three months later, the U.S. entered World War I, and Johnson went off to fight through the Meuse-Argonne offensive as a captain of infantry. He returned with a hatful of ideas on what was wrong with the Army. On an impulse which was later to become...
...law partner, Philip Steptoe, a shy, scholarly wizard on briefs, was the office legal eagle. Hustling Louis Johnson made friends and drummed up business. Between them, they made an unbeatable combination. The firm of Steptoe & Johnson began branching out-to Charleston and on to Washington...
...mostly once-burned Louis Johnson waited his time, and turned back to the law. With the added luster of Johnson's Government service, Steptoe & Johnson was doing better & better. Its list of clients became a sort of Burke's Peerage of the nation's corporations: Consolidated Vultee, Montgomery Ward, New York Life Insurance. Louis Johnson himself became a director of Consolidated and the $50,000-a-year president of the General Dyestuff Corp., the sales agency for General Aniline & Film, which had been seized as a Nazi asset by the Alien Property Custodian...
...candidacy at the 1944 convention, served as assistant to then-treasurer Pauley. The President, like most of his friends, calls him "Judge," but it is a misnomer. "I never claimed it wasn't," Mayock explains, "but I got tired of explaining it was a phony myself." He maintains law offices in Washington...