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There followed one minute of devotional silence. Then Representative Guyer, onetime high-school principal, onetime judge, onetime mayor of Kansas City, Kans., presented the Republican tribute to the dead. He quoted Felicia Hemans, Tennyson, Shakespeare (twice), Joseph Addison, William Cullen Bryant, William Winter. He drew on three foreign tongues: from Dante, Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate; from Bishop Jean Baptiste Massillon's funeral oration over Louis Quatorze, Dieu seul est grand; from a "lucid saying" of the Romans, Sic transit gloria mundi. Two he translated for the benefit of his less cultured colleagues...
...That's a good crew," said salty, bushy-browed Captain Gregory Cullen in Jersey City last week. "I'd sail again with that crew. They're all right, take 'em some place where they won't be terrorized by the Reds in America. The only men we're dropping here in New York are some waiters, and that's just for incompetence. They pour soup down your back...
Clad in a blue topcoat and a black Homburg hat and carrying a horn-rimmed monocle and a gleaming Malacca stick, Captain Cullen sniffed and snorted: "This talk about insolent stewards is just a lot of g- -d hooey and lies. Why, there was not a steward logged [fined] except a couple for getting drunk. And I'd log 'em if there were any reason...
Lately International's directors have been tightening up on budgets, paring personnel. An executive shake-up occurred last spring when E. A. Charlton resigned, to be succeeded as active boss of the paper mills by Kraftman Cullen. At a board meeting last month it was decided that Mr. Graustein should resign as president of International Paper Co., remain as head of International Paper & Power, the top holding company. Presumably Mr. Cullen was to have a free hand in paper, Mr. Graustein in power...
...vote of no confidence, sat down forthwith and wrote a three-page resignation. Having by repute no love at all for Chase National Bank, Mr. Graustein is supposed to have spied that institution's long hand behind the directors' attitude. Elected to succeed him was Kraftman Cullen. Even Mr. Graustein does not know where Mr. Cullen was born...