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...early February a small jet en route from California to Florida stopped for refueling at the Kleberg County Airport, near Kingsville, Texas. Acting on a tip, U.S. Customs officials searched the aircraft and found nearly $6 million in $100 and $20 bills in the suitcases of one of the passengers. They arrested the owner of the luggage, Francisco Guirola Beeche, 34, a wealthy Salvadoran businessman, and his two companions. Guirola is a friend of Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing Salvadoran politician and foe of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The three men were later indicted in Corpus Christi, Texas...
Nonetheless, the organizers, a group of Texas business leaders, have already raised $200,000 for Hall of Fame programs. The nine inaugural Hall of Fame members include: two oilmen, W.D. Noel, founder of El Paso Products, and L.F. McCollum, former chairman of Continental Oil Co.; Robert J. Kleberg Jr. of the King Ranch; Jesse Jones, publisher, real estate developer and head of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. during the New Deal; J. Erik Jonsson, former head of Texas Instruments; George and Herman Brown, who developed the giant Brown & Root construction firm; Retailer Charles Tandy of Tandy Corp.; and Arthur Temple...
...landed and oiled gentry; there are more than 100 families in this category in Texas with a net worth of $30 million or more each. Debrett's aristocrats are selected by Georgia Author Hugh Best (Red Hot & Blue). The largest landholders of this pride of peers, the King-Kleberg clan, at one point owned 13 million acres around the world, though, as Nelson Bunker Hunt observed, "a billion dollars isn't what it used to be." Among other renowned Texas aristocrats: Fort Worth's Perry Richardson Bass and Son Sid, and Houston's Roy Cullen...
...fawning notes to faculty members at the end of his exams and so flattered the college president that the man made Lyndon his assistant. He also stole his first election, a student government contest. L.B.J. was just as smarmy at the next major stop: assistant to Texas Congressman Dick Kleberg. In Washington he cheated his way to victory in another election (for leadership of a group of legislative aides) and carefully cultivated the crowned heads of Congress. Chief among them was House Minority Leader (later Speaker) Sam Rayburn, a fellow Texan who became his beloved mentor, and whom Johnson eventually...
...good one-he's having an enema.' " Authority implemented with scatology was natural to Johnson's agrarian traditions of rough paternalism. He got things done through personal contacts; he knew everybody and their skeletons. As the young secretary to Texas Congressman Richard Kleberg, he persuaded Western Union boys to leak him telegrams announcing federal projects. Johnson then released the news first, under his own name. As a New Deal Congressman, he was a favorite of F.D.R.'s. As Senator Johnson, leader of the majority, he ruled at the center of a web woven of short hairs...