Word: cullman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birmingham, Ala. Sheriff Fred H. McDuff received a court warrant from nearby Cullman County calling for the arrest of one John D. Chambliss, who "gave a challenge in words and in person to fight in combat a duel with John Stevens and Erwin Stevens and to fight a duel with a deadly weapon, to wit, a pistol.'' Swearer of the warrant was Farmer Erwin Stevens...
Last week he also dismissed the Committee, whose Chairman Howard S. Cullman at once demanded to know why his group had been dismissed "in so abrupt a manner without so much as an explanation." All year there was talk that Director Weaver would resign, but he thrust out his square jaw, snapped that he would "not be forced out" until he had accomplished something...
More headlines were made when Howard S. Cullman, a Roper appointee to the National Committee on Safety at Sea, got his personal pressagent to distribute a tart public letter by him on the human equation in safety at sea. Excerpt : "The general unrest in the maritime labor field is a matter of common knowledge. Conditions under which so-called able seamen and lifeboat men certificates are issued are known to make possible, if not encourage, flagrant fraud. How can we . . . hope that underpaid, overworked officers will be able to maintain real discipline...
Hospital Business- Howard Stix Cullman, president of New York City's Beekman Street Hospital, advised hospital trustees to let physicians determine their hospitals' medical policy, turn themselves to the badly-run business end. Cried he: "Certainly no intelligent group of businessmen would tolerate accounting systems so unstandardized that a comparative study of costs is almost impossible. Certainly no commercial enterprise could exist with so chaotic a labor situation as prevails in our hospitals, where a completely unstandardized wage scale has resulted in an annual turnover large enough to wreck the average business...
...Christmas carols against a background representing the Nativity. She had even discussed details with the management, decided to use a donkey, dismissed the idea of including a cow. The Roxy management, threatened with suit, admitted that it had been mistaken about Mrs. Mackay's indisposition. Receiver Howard S. Cullman, new at his job, said that his predecessor, Harry G. Kosch, had drawn up (but not signed) the contract which Mrs. Mackay did sign. Receiver Cullman was the one who at the last minute decided against such expensive entertainment...