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Show . LEGION Copy for Thle Department Supplied bj the American Leton Htswe Bervlce.) DOYLE NOW LEADS FORTY AND EIGHT If jou see two virile young fellows clad in chaps and all the rest of the accepted cowboy paraphernalia going about a convention city of the American Amer-ican Legion and "shooting up the town" Just to add zest to the occasion, It's dollars to doughnuts that one of the redoubtable pair setting off the blanks Is Stanley M. Doyle, better known ns "Larry;" The Hide-kick and pal of the man who Is now chef de chemln- de fer, or chief high muclcy-tnuck muclcy-tnuck of Forty and Eight, honor society so-ciety of the American Legion, is Carroll Car-roll E. Grlflln. "Larry" Doyle, however, we have It on good authority is neither cowboy nor gunman. He's so tame that, though he now lives In Montana und heads the cowboy, pony-riding delegation delega-tion from the state up in the mountains, moun-tains, he was born In Minnesota and spent a goodly portion of his life among the cornfields of Iowa. He attended at-tended the grades and high school at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and It is not of record that his cowboy passion for fun had asserted Itself at that early date, at least In Its convention-parade, cow-pony fashion. Spending three years at St Thomas college at St. Paul, he entered the employ of the Rock Island railroad. After two years with the; Rock Island Stanley M. Doyle. he joined the transportation department depart-ment of the Northern Pacific at Gleu-dive, Gleu-dive, Mont. Enlisting in the air service at Omaha in 1917, he was assigned to the school of military aeronautics at Austin, Texas, Tex-as, and later to Kelly field at San Antonio. An-tonio. He later served at Camp Dick und at Fort Sill. He was discharged at the latter place in February, 1919. He then enrolled in the college of law at Drake university, Des Moines, Iowa. After completing his course In May, 1922, he returned to Glendlve and began the practice of law. He was elected city attorney In 1923 and holds that office at present. Soon after its organization, the new chef de chemln de fer joined Argonne post of the Legion at Des Moines. He was transferred later to Dawson post No. 2S at Glendlve. He was post historian his-torian and then for three years a member mem-ber of the post executive committee. He has been department historian and Is now department vice commander of Montana. In the Forty and Eight he has risen from chef de train of his local volture at Glendlve to grand chef de train, cheminot national and sous chef de chemln de fer and then to chef de chemln de fer, to which position he was elected at Omaha in recognition of his outstanding services. |