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Texas' biggest political news of the week was. however, the race to succeed Mr. Allred as Governor. In a field of twelve for the Democratic nomination (virtual election), leading contestants until last month were Attorney General William ("Bill") McCraw and redheaded Railroad Commissioner Ernest Othmer ("Red Colonel") Thompson. Then into the race stepped Wilbert Lee O'Daniel, of Fort Worth, a radio character well-known to Texans, for years a flour salesman, later a miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Flour Salesman | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Death & Taxes, No matter what State gets Colonel Green as a resident by Surrogate Owen's ruling, the U. S. Supreme Court will be the court to settle once & for all the question of domicile for tax billing purposes. The tax schedule which Texas' Attorney General William McCraw filed with the Supreme Court placed the gross value of Colonel Green's estate at $44,384,500. This may be as much as $50,000,000 short of the final figure, for as yet nobody knows exactly how much Hetty Green's big cub did leave. According...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Green Grist | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...commission which has been taking testimony in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, relative to the value of Cornell University lands, in the suit to break the will of Jennie McCraw-Fiske, shows that the university has a good deal of land out there, though the cash value of the timber on it is not tremendous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/23/1884 | See Source »

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