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Died. Rentfro Banton Creager, 73, the Republican Party's senior National Committeeman, longtime ringmaster of Republican politics in Texas; in Brownsville, Texas...
Proposed by his own committeeman, Earl Warren got early support from Texas' redhaired Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, the South's most potent Republican. Chairman Spangler seconded the motion. Representatives of the Dewey and Bricker camps nodded agreement. In the face of such agreement at the top, all other candidacies collapsed. Earl Warren was chosen unanimously...
School of Public Health: Captain Huston J. Banton, 1P.H., Washington; School of Design: (including degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Regional Planning) Albert C. Koch, Jr. 3G.S.D., Cambridge; School of Business Administration: E. Howard Roorbach 2G.B., Cambridge; School of Engineerings Harold B. Gotaas, Vermillion, South Dakota; School of Education: William J. Crissy, Cambridge (Ed.D. marshal), and William Shapiro, Roxbury (A.M. in Teaching marshal...
...slick, entertaining film of a modern Cinderella, The Gilded Lily moves plausibly through many plot impossibilities with Miss Colbert looking extraordinarily beautiful in chic Travis Banton frocks. Fred MacMurray, onetime jazz-band leader, dark-browed and handsome in his first leading role, is obviously nervous in some scenes but does, on the whole, creditable work and will probably be hailed as Hollywood's new great lover. Pleasantly directed by Wesley Ruggles, this film just misses being a worthy successor to It Happened One Night, to which it will undoubtedly be compared...
...gained more new ones. One such enterprise was a long series of reports on the effects of Prohibition, with the conclusion that the law was unenforceable. An-other was the expose of alleged graft in Hidalgo, Tex., which resulted in $1,000,000 worth of libel suits by Rentfro Banton Creager, Republican National Committeeman and Texas boss (TIME. Sept. 16, 19291. Collier's won the first suit for $500,000; the second was withdrawn. Above all. Editor Chenery insisted that every feature interest every prospective reader. An article on cosmetics must be so written to interest men; a study...