Word: collier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: TIME, Aug. 26, p. 43, under the caption, "Why Go to Church?," tells of the winning of a prize of $1,000 by Robert Collier of Mind, Inc., in a "Why Go to Church?" contest...
...same mail that brought that issue of TIME also brought a letter from this same Robert Collier of Mind, Inc. It was such a good letter that I am sure that all genuine TIME fans would enjoy...
Creager v. Collier...
...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...