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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...
...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...
...North Dakota came Governor Arthur Gustav Sorlie. From New Orleans came enormously rotund Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe. Governor Len Small of Illinois was there and Senators James Enos Watson of Indiana and Pat Harrison of Mississippi. There were business boosters from St. Louis, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge; rooster-boosters from Cairo, Keokuk, Dubuque and Quincy. There were a policemen's octet, a quartet of Pullman porters, an Italian band dressed as sailors. One and all wore huge bullseye badges inscribed "America First," "Farm Relief," "Inland Waterways to Double Exports," "National Flood Control to Prevent Disasters." Singing, grinning...
Lately, Senator Curtis has trimmed up the drooping mustache which, with his black sombrero, used to distinguish him as an old-time politician. But he still works "on the inside," letting his effusive colleague, Senator Arthur Capper, do the handshaking, the rooster-boosting. He would make a quiet nominee and no crowd of political ' creditors would follow him around...
...daily squib to bet his fellow paragrapher, Arthur Brisbane, $5,000 unconditionally, that Calvin Coolidge would run for President next year, not because Mr. Coolidge wants to but "because he has to." For this some called Will Rogers courageous in his convictions. Others cried: "Publicity hunter! Headline hound! Rooster-booster...