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...most powerful financial weapon at his command, the Alleghany Corp., a railroad holding company. By purchasing Alleghany in 1937, Young was able to get control of the Chesapeake & Ohio. Later, Alleghany supplied the funds that Young lent to those impecunious oil millionaires, Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson, so that they could buy Central stock to vote in Young's favor in the proxy fight...
...Tricks. Halas himself quit playing in 1930, but with such great stars as Bronko Nagurski, Beattie Feathers, Joe Stydahar and Sid Luckman, the Bears earned the nickname "Monsters of the Midway," and won more than their share of divisional titles...
...deals between U.S. businessmen, few have proved more complex or mysterious than the $20 million New York Central stock deal that Texas Millionaires Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson made with Robert R. Young last year. With the help of a $7,500,000 loan from Young's Alleghany Corp., the two Texas wheeler-dealers bought 800,000 shares of Central stock, then voted them to help Young win his proxy fight to take over the railroad (TIME, June 21, 1954). Last week, in a New York Supreme Court hearing brought by disgruntled Alleghany .stockholders on a charge that...
Murchison: "There was a rumor in Texas Vanderbilt wanted to buy these shares. I got [my lawyer] to go to Vanderbilt. He said the rumor was fiction." With that, Murchison went ahead with the deal. He asked Partner Sid Richardson, one of the world's richest oilmen, to come in with him because $20 million "occurred to me as a pretty big bite to take alone." Well, how much was Mr. Murchison worth? asked court-appointed Referee Robert J. Fitzsimmons. Answered Murchison : "About five, six or seven million." As it turned out, though, he did not need any money...
After the Crimson had to punt, the Tigers, who had kept the ball in Crimson territory to then, took over on their own 45. With tailback Sid Pinch and wingback Bill Danforth doing the running, they moved quickly to the Harvard 19 for a first down, as the new period changed...