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Bazy also tried another tack. She called a long list of potential backers, including such conservative millionaires as Sears, Roebuck's Chairman General Robert Wood, ex-Ambassador to England Joseph Kennedy, and Texas Oilmen H. L. Hunt, Sid Richardson, Hugh Roy Cullen and Clint Murchison. Before her 45 hours were up, she had pledges for about $4,000,000, but when she asked the colonel for time to raise more, he said "No, no, no." The colonel was determined to sell to Meyer because he respected him as a professional newspaperman. The colonel did not want to sell...
...asked for a compromise? The Central, snapped Young. But Central President White snapped back that Clint Murchison made the offer. The compromise was for a new board of directors with six for the present Central management and eight for Bob Young's faction, plus Young as board chairman. But both the Central and Railroader Young turned it down. Back in Texas, Murchison said: "I was the one who suggested the meeting. I suggested it with the idea that any kind of a compromise is better than a bloody fight. And I thought we had Mr. Young in line...
...Clint Murchison so they could vote it. "Eaton," said the Central darkly, "does Young's bidding...
...Board. Clint Murchison's financial interests range more widely, into about 100 different companies, including an insurance firm (Atlantic Life), banks, chemical companies, an office-equipment company (Diebold), a newspaper, a book-publishing firm (Henry Holt) as well as big oil and gas holdings. He has teamed up with Young on other occasions. In 1951 Murchison and Young's Alleghany Corp. each put up $1,300,000 to buy control of American Mail Line, a Seattle company which operates trading ships to the Orient. Murchison borrowed the cash for his share from Alleghany. Last January, one day after...
This week Young announced the first seven members of his slate for the Central's board. Heading the list: Sid Richardson, Clint Murchison...