Erik Jonsson was not afraid of working for the "good of the whole" because he knew that Dallas would benefit. too. He is a Dallas man. a member of the Dallas establishment which is so firm an establishment that its members refer to themselves by that name. The former mayor bought the American work ethic as a way of life while a youngster in Brooklyn where he worked at odd jobs as the only child of Swedish Immigrant parents who owned and ran a news and tobacco stand. The man who now has been awarded five honorary doctoral degrees earned his first degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He moved to Dallas in 1934 from New York to become secretary of a corporation in which he later became an ownerTexas Instruments.
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