Word: hidalgo
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...opposing candidates were Arturo Alessnndri, a former President of Chile and Manuel Hidalgo, Communist. Chilean hard times were expected to bring Communist Hidalgo many votes, but his rumored connection with the ineffectual Chilean naval mutiny lost him much popular sympathy. Candidate Alessandri had put through (when President) Chile's broad labor laws, workmen nocked...
...pugnaciousness with special articles which, while they lost some old readers, 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 Collier's won the first suit for $500,000; the second was withdrawn.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...
...Another suit pending against Collier's by Rentfro Banton Creager, "redheaded rooster of the Rio Grande," Republican National Committeeman for Texas; $1,000,000 damages for alleged untruths about political dirty work in Hidalgo County, Tex. (TIME, Sept...
...Amarillo Globe-News, son of old-time Ed Howe, "Sage of Potato Hill" (Atchison, Kan.). Story-teller White lately helped Collier's magazine into a million-dollar libel suit by flaying, old-style, the political monkey-business of Rentfro Banton Creager and other Texas Republicans in Hidalgo County (TIME, Sept. 16). Editor Howe has obtained publicity for his little cow-&-gas town of Amarillo by flaying, new style, such national figures as Mary Garden and Charles Augustus Lindbergh (TIME, April...
...hell, but, out of the 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...