Word: killion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Killion, onetime editor of the Sacramento Bee, later a legislative consultant for Safeway Stores. Killion went to Washington as assistant to the Petroleum Administrator for War, became Pauley's assistant during the 1944 campaign, later succeeded him as Democratic treasurer. In 1947, the Maritime Commission made him president of the Government-owned American President Lines at $25,000 a year...
...California's Director of Finance, Killion helped the state out of a $60 million hole by getting bankers to lower their interest rates on the debt from 5% to 1%. He soon won a name for raising and handling funds. By the time he left the job, California was well in the black...
...Ambassador to India), he hoped for a break with tradition. He announced that he expected to be succeeded by Executive Vice President E. Russell Lutz, no politician. He was wrong. Last week, to fill the $25,000-a-year vacancy, the company chose lean-faced, natty George L. Killion, 46, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee...
Like Grady and preceding political heads, Killion took over the job with no previous shipping experience. The only nautical note that reporters could find in his record was the name of his birthplace-Steamboat Springs, Colo. An ex-newspaperman and chain-store lobbyist, he got his first political job through a long-standing friendship with California's New Dealing Governor Culbert Levy Olson...
...Louis. Henry printed the song, remarked its similarity to the current No. 1 sheet-music seller, the No. 2 ditty of the NBC and CBS networks, The Hut-Sut Song. This doubletalk, mock-Swedish "serenade" was written by Ted McMichael (of the singing "Merry Macs"), Jack Owens, Leo V. Killion. The song goes as follows...