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...found what he wanted in politics. For years he bounced from one meager job to another: country schoolteacher, itinerant farm hand, lumberjack. He ran for local offices (circuit clerk and recorder) and won, later wangled an appointment as postmaster. In 1948 he helped throw Madison County to liberal Sid McMath, who was elected governor. McMath named him to the nonsalary state highway commission, later responded to a Faubus plea ("I'm broke. I need a payin' job") by making him an administrative assistant at $5,000 a year. Orval Faubus moved to Little Rock...
...Faubus threw himself behind Sid McMath's campaign for governor, delivered Madison County. McMath named him to the highway commission (an unsalaried job), made him a $5,000-a-year administrative assistant after he delivered the hill country again in 1950, and after Faubus complained: "I'm broke. I need a payin' job." A McMath aide recalls the first time he saw Faubus: "He came down here in a $10 suit that ended somewhere north of his socks. He was chewing a matchstick, and I hardly ever saw him after that without a matchstick or a straw...
...McMATH Little Rock...
...TIME is glad to note that ex-Marine McMath says he does not swear...
McClellan beat McMath by 37,000 votes and returned to Washington. It had taken him years, but he was finally able to live up to the code set forth by the preacher of his boyhood days: to know himself, control himself, and deny himself. John McClellan would be a lesser man if he had never had problems. He is the stronger for overcoming them. His conduct at the labor-investigating committee shows...