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...first round in federal district court in Washington, which ruled that Dollar had sold his company. So the commission confidently continued to build up the line, acquired virtually a new fleet of ships, including two 23,515-ton passenger liners, the President Cleveland and President Wilson. Under President George Killion, onetime chain-store executive and former treasurer of the Democratic Party, the line's operations were streamlined and costs cut. Last year's profit after taxes...
...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...