Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis Johnson's own father had no plantation. He was a grocery clerk in Roanoke who married Katherine Arthur, the colonel's daughter. A man of good family, little money and less education, Marcellus Johnson taught his son the value of an honest dollar, taught him to think and speak for himself, prodded him on with the fierceness of a man who has missed opportunity himself. After his counsel, no one had to teach Louis Arthur Johnson to get out in front and stay there...
...Man on Campus. Before Louis Johnson's arrival, university politics had been dominated by the upper-crust fraternities. Louis soon changed all that, at least for his day. The Betas, the Dekes, the Sigma Chis would all have been delighted to accept the big, aggressive kid with the curly black hair and determined chin. But Louis became a Delta Chi, organized a merger of lesser fraternities and non-fraternity men and began winning student elections with monotonous regularity...
...senior year, Louis Johnson strolled beside the serpentine walks, a mandolin tucked casually under his arm, hatless and sporting the latest in peg-top trousers, the biggest man on campus...
Conservatism in politics never held a man back in the American Legion. And in the Legion, Louis Johnson reached the top in 1932, taking over in the unsettled era after the bonus march on Washington...
Armed with Roosevelt's assurance that he would soon be moving into Woodring's job, Assistant Secretary Johnson began acting like the No. 1 man in fact. Isolationist Harry Woodring resisted every move toward U.S. intervention abroad, and Assistant Secretary Louis Johnson fought him at every turn. With the connivance of the President, Johnson tabled important matters that passed through his office until Woodring left town; then he rammed them through "by direction of the Acting Secretary of War." He let it be known openly in the War Department that he was "only in the Assistant Secretary...