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...Hoover maintained an industrious silence last week in his big, bare office at the Department of Commerce. His friends were discreetly jubilant. First to swing from the draft-Coolidge movement to Mr. Hoover's support was Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, "Red Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande" (TIME, Dec. 12), representing 26 Texas delegates...
Rentfro Banton Creager, Republican National Committeeman from Texas, to pay respects (see BOOMS...
Rentfro Banton Creager walked into the White House. Here was news, perhaps. Rentfro Creager comes from Brownsville, Tex. They call Rentfro Banton Creager "the red-headed rooster of the Rio Grande." He was a customs collector under Presidents Taft and Roosevelt and a gubernatorial nominee in 1916. He has been State Republican Chairman of vast Texas since 1921 and he was asked by Presidents Harding and Coolidge to be Ambassador to Mexico. Rentfro Banton Creager is esteemed...
...boded news?perhaps?when Mr. Creager walked into the White House last week, because early in November, when the Coolidge "choosiness" was at its foggiest, Mr. Creager was reported to have promised, in a characteristically red-headed moment, to walk right into the White House some day and "pound on the desk" and ask President Coolidge "just exactly what he meant by choosing not to run." People on the Rio Grande wanted to know, and the red-headed rooster thereof would find...
But?National Committeeman Creager issued from the White House last week very calm and newsless. "All this furor about what the President meant," he said, "is in the minds of the people generally. But those who know Mr. Coolidge know what he meant . . . that if he can have his way about it he will not be a candidate...