Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central with newspaper ads attacking its operating policies. Gradually, he softened confidence in the Central's management until he finally captured the road with the help of a dazzling financial trick. Using friends for financial help, as he often did, Young got Texas Oilmen Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson to buy 800,000 shares of Central stock owned by the C. & 0. (which had been prevented by the Interstate Commerce Commission from voting its shares) so they could vote the stock for Young. Not only had the stock been bought completely on borrowed cash, but Young actually got Central...
...such charge against a major casino in the state's history. The board charged that a twenty-one dealer in the hotel casino had peeked at cards before dealing them, asked the State Tax Commission to suspend the hotel's gambling license. For Hotel President T. W. Richardson, it was the last straw. Short of cash and long on suspicious customers, he closed the casino while the commission pondered...
...bankroll the Royal Nevada again, Richardson got $150,000 from Joe W. Brown, oil-rich Texan owner of the local Horseshoe Club, and the hotel started gambling. As 1958 rolled in, Manager Maurice Friedman happily said that cash flowing across the tables had reached $211,711.35. As for precise winnings, Friedman was Vegas-vague, but Bankroller Brown had his money back, and the creditors were satisfied enough not to foreclose...
TEXAN SID RICHARDSON is spreading word that for right price he will sell his oil and gas holdings, estimated to be worth upwards of $200 million. Richardson, 67, who likes to say that a man's wealth can be measured by what he owes, and who just borrowed $37.5 million, is discouraged by the softening domestic oil market, the increasingly tough and costly job of exploring and drilling. Among interested prospects: Continental Oil, Humble Oil and Standard...
...there are touches. Margaret Leighton's face, for instance, is an excellent playground of contrasts, especially when she is acting the real novelist, puzzled by passion. Moreover, and most fortunately, Ralph Richardson acts her husband. He is casually perfect, and finds a flourish even in the stiff upper lip of, "There's only one thing more to say. Apparently I haven't made it sufficiently clear. I happen to love you very much...