Word: cullen
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Your Sept. 29 article on Texas followed the same hackneyed approach that you always take toward my native state-oil wells, millionaires, the Cullen Foundation, and the Republic National Bank ... In the traditional TIME manner your article slides over the surface of Texas politics and finds the tidelands the supreme issue. Certainly the word "tidelands" has been passed about by the politicians, but it is safe to say that half to three-fourths of the people of the state do not know what the controversy is about...
...production of oil, gas, mohair, wool, cattle and Angora goats. It has 132,000 oil wells, three highly regarded city symphony orchestras and a housewife who recently ordered a bracelet bangle designed to look like a kitchen sink with diamonds dripping from the faucet. It has the Cullen Foundation, which has set aside $160 million worth of oil properties to endow medical, educational and charitable institutions. One Texan has a million-dollar-a-week income, and so many others have so much less that the per-capita income of Texans is slightly less than the national average. The rags...
...their desire for democratic uniformity, even the republic's most eminent men approached prissiness. Franklin crusaded against such verb forms as to notice, opposed to, to progress and to advocate. Editor William Cullen Bryant forbade his reporters to use lengthy, presidential, and to legislate. Meanwhile, John Adams proposed a national institution to provide "a public standard for all persons ... to appeal to." The institution that the nation eventually got was Noah Webster...
...reason: McLendon was so eager to build his empire that he ignored sound programming, often paid more to service his stations than they paid him in affiliation fees. Last summer, in need of money, McLendon sold 50% of Liberty to Texas Oilman Hugh Roy Cullen...
McLendon then filed a damage suit for $12 million against the big-league ball clubs under the antitrust laws. Two months ago, with losses running to $66,000 a month, he went back to Oilman Cullen for more money. Cullen lent him $175,000 and told him that was all. Last month, with .losses "getting a little silly," McLendon suspended all Liberty network operations. Last week in a Dallas court, three creditors filed bankruptcy proceedings against McLendon...