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...Sunday night, on the eve of the meeting of the Republican National Committee President & Mrs. Hoover entertained potent Republican politicians: Colonel & Mrs. Rentfro Banton Creager of Texas (see p. 48), Louis Kroh Liggett of Massa- chusetts, Dr. Work...
...Creager v. Collier...
...Rooster is Rentfro Banton Creager, red-haired Brownsville bank president, Republican National Committeeman and Texas boss, onetime gubernatorial nominee, good friend of Presidents Harding and Coolidge, both of whom offered him the U. S. Ambassadorship to Mexico. In every way "Rooster" Creager looms large in Texas. When he read references to himself which he considered defamatory in Collier's magazine, he was not one to blench. Promptly he filed libel suits against Cottier's aggregating...
Last spring soft-spoken Editor William Ludlow Chenery of Collier's pondered Hidalgo's startling growth. Soon he despatched Writer Owen P. White, oldtime Texan, to be Hidalgo's historian. Writer White was amazed at many things he saw just above the Rio Grande. Among them, naturally, was "Rooster" Creager who, with Boss Baker, seemed to rule the Hidalgo roost. In his subsequent history, Writer White said: "It's right there [Hidalgo County] . . . that our two most stylish American breakfast foods, GRAFT and GRAPEFRUIT . . . have been brought to their very highest and juiciest state of perfection. . . . R. B. Creager...
...goodness of their hearts, provide them with a handy route in the shape of a heavily bonded high- way and a costly toll bridge which lands them right at the very door of the place. A committee of Congressmen went to Hidalgo County and studied the technique of Baker, Creager & Co., when they were ready to remark: 'Well, this is all too fancy for us. Philadelphia at its best was never like this...