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...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...
Since then, lease prices have risen from 10? an acre to as high as $235. Such famed wildcatters as Texas' H. L. Hunt, often called "the richest oilman in the world," and Hugh Roy Cullen hustled in to get in on the play. Centers of the drilling, e.g., Glendive, Mont, and Williston, N.D., burst at the seams...
...years, from land that was once a forest, 46 buildings have sprung up on the Houston campus, including colleges of law, business, education, engineering, pharmacy and nursing. Over it all, Hugh Cullen keeps a fatherly eye. As chairman of the Board of Regents, as well as Houston's foremost angel, he never interferes with academic policy, does not even seem to care whether Houston has a big football team. At 70, he has only one plan for the university: "I'd like to give quite a few more millions to it," says...