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...driving force behind its philosophy ("We will teach anybody anything he wants"), he offered everything from a six-hour course in cafeteria sanitation to an eight-year course leading to a Ph.D. He made friends with Oilman Hugh Roy Cullen, channeled some of Cullen's millions into a vast new campus. He put up buildings for the colleges of law, pharmacy, nursing and optometry, saw the university's enrollment rise...
...began to protest. To return the Africans to Spain was to sentence them to death. A legal staff was assembled to defend Cinqué and his people. Sketches of Cinqué, suggesting a rare nobility of nature, roused public support in the North; friends of the Africans quoted William Cullen Bryant's poem...
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...
...spite of H. R. Cullen and Jesse Jones, Texas is essentially a poor state and backward in many respects . . . The vast majority of our people, the low-income group, are not opposed to New Deal measures other than the attempts to promote racial equality. They have benefited greatly from the Democratic programs, and will probably stay with the party if it promises to continue these programs. The ultra-conservatives are really not typical of the state as a whole...
...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...