Matthew M. Neely
Matthew Mansfield Neely (November 9, 1874 – January 18, 1958) was an American Democratic politician from West Virginia.He died in 1958, several years before the home rule he had sponsored finally passed both houses of Congress.His grandson was Richard Neely, an author and politician who served as the chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.[7] In 1937, along with senator Homer Bone and representative Warren Magnuson, Neely introduced the National Cancer Institute Act, which was signed into law by Franklin Roosevelt on August 5 of that year.[8] The Neely Anti-Block Booking Act gradually broke the control of the movie theaters by the studios.
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