Word: rentfro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 Collier's won the first suit for $500,000; the second was withdrawn.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 on cosmetics must be so written to interest men; a study...
...luncheon - Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays and the onetime Mrs. Jessie Herron Stutesman. ¶ Mrs. Henry Drought asked President Hoover to attend the sooth anniversary celebration of the construction of the Spanish Governor's Palace at San Antonio, Tex. next March. Another Texas caller was National Republican Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, ''Red-Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande." ¶ Widespread is the Washington belief that Postmaster General Brown wants to succeed Charles Curtis as Vice President in 1932. Going to Cabinet meeting last
...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...