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William Smith Culburtson and William Allen White are townmates of Emporia, Kansas...
Though Mr. White edits in a city of 13,000 he is famed throughout the world. Though Mr. Culburtson has been Minister to Rumania since 1925 and is a world authority on economics he is insufficiently famed among his countrymen. They might have peered at him with profit, last week, as he was promoted by President Coolidge to be U. S. Ambassador...
Peerers at Ambassador Culburtson would have seen a very flower among U. S. diplomats, not a shirt-sleever, not a spat-wearing expatriate, but a comfortable man of kindly shrewdness, a man from Emporia who walked unruffled through Rumanian intrigue, won confidence, kept respect. Minister Culburtson was in Bucharest when the late Prime Minister Jon Bratiano heard from trustworthy sources of the effect produced upon U. S. public opinion by the tour of Queen Marie, and despatched the secret cablegram which resulted in Her Majesty's precipitant return...
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