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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Haralson L. Hunt, 62, of Dallas. Probably the richest in oil income, reputedly worth $263 million, Hunt is tall, solidly built, poker-faced. He is passionately publicity-shy, has had only one known picture taken of him (see cut), walks the streets unrecognized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: SEVEN BIG TEXANS | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Where was Glenn McCarthy going? Houstonians say: "He's going to kill himself, go bankrupt, or get to be the richest man on earth. You figure out which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King of the Wildcatters | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Only their bankers know who the richest Texans are. But these would be on anyone's list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: SEVEN BIG TEXANS | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...Richardson of Fort Worth. Probably the richest man in oil reserves, Richardson is a fiftyish bachelor who lives in the skyscraper Fort Worth Club, with a fine collection of Remington and Russell paintings of the Old West. A barrel-bodied man with sandy hair and a quizzical smile, Richardson drilled many a dry hole, for years lived on credit in a cheap hotel and ate on credit at a drugstore before he hit it rich in 1935. He owns a 30,000-acre island in the Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: SEVEN BIG TEXANS | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...locked drawer in his office safe. As deputy mayor of Jersey City, he sat in a seat once warmed by one of Boss Frank Hague's most trusted henchmen. Last week, rummaging through a filing cabinet, he found a key that unlocked the drawer. Inside he found the richest souvenir yet of Boss Hague's corrupt and efficient regime: six bound volumes labeled either "For" or "Against" and containing, on hundreds of pages of legal foolscap, the names of every home owner in Jersey City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Souvenir from the Boss | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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