Clint William Murchison Jr., (September 12, 1923 in Dallas, Texas-March 30, 1987) was a businessman and founder of the Dallas Cowboys football team. Floors make such a difference, Eleazer says. Before a job interview lunch in late 1959, Murchison and Schramm had never met, a recommendation from Halas leading to the meeting. He read each of the three finalists aloud, and before hanging up the phone, Murchison said, "Okay, let's go with Cowboys.". Wolfe claims that he never used it to push his political ideas. [oil executive Jack] Crichton (close with Bush and head of a secretive Dallas-based, oil-connected military intelligence unit that deeply immersed in aspects of the tragic events of November 22, 1963) was so plugged into the Dallas power structure that one of his company directors was Clint Murchison Sr., king of the oil depletion allowance, and another was D. Harold Byrd, owner of the Texas School Book Depository building..". However, he claims that the "FBIRA was a slush fund, maintained for the use of Hoover, Tolson, and their key aides. Money was no object really. ", Philip F. Nelson, the author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination (2011) has pointed out that the oil depletion allowance, "allowed them to retain 27.5 percent of their oil revenue tax-tree; its loss, according to World Petroleum magazine, stood to cost the industry as much as $280 million in annual profits. His research led him to the Dallas Museum of Art, which had borrowed the painting and never returned it. [7], Prior to the end of World War II, Murchison was concerned with the threat of Russian Communism to world relationships. Its one of my favorites, listing agent Joan Eleazer says, and Ive sold real estate for years.. By The book, Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America (1958), was an account of the Communist menace and sold over 250,000 copies in hardcover and over 2,000,000 in paperback. It was estimated that as a result of this legislation, wealthy oilmen saw a fall in their earnings on foreign investment from 30 per cent to 15 per cent. Delhi Australia developed gas reserves in Australia and Delhi Coastal Transmission transported gas from Texas to Florida.