Word: rio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...French women makes that country a leading source of supply but also causes many women recruited from Eastern Europe to declare falsely that they are French; 3) The chief regions of demand are Egypt and South America; and the leading cities of consumption are Alexandria, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro; 4) The chief European port through which "white slaves" pass is Marseille, France; but Lisbon, Portugal, and Piraeus, Greece, are auxiliary ports of shipment in which conditions are?if possible? more debased than at Marseille; 5) The Anglo-Saxon countries scarcely figure in the international traffic but recruit their...
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...
...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...
...Chisholm Trail", the imminent production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, derives it name from a cowboy song of the 'seventies, "The Old Chisholm Trail." This ballard, of unknown authorship, was sung on the range from the Rio Grande to the Manitoba border...