Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Muscle, Shoals problem gas once more come before the Senate. The bill which presents it proposes that the government market the power which can be easily developed and devote the proceeds to the development of farm fertilizers. Considering that the plant cost the United States $160,000,000 and that it cannot be sold at a profit this seems a sensible project...
...this job Lowden has given most of his time and energy since the 1920 convention upset the plan and dashed the hopes of his too industrious managers. An attempt to lure him away from his farm and persuade him to run on the ticket as Vice President, with Coolidge, fell flat in 1924 Lowden insisting. "I can be of more service to the country through the activities in which I am now engaged than I could be as Vice President...
...meaning that Lowden intended to be of "Service to the country" by championing the farmers grievances in 1928 may or may not be true. But what is unquestionably true is that Lowden has devoted a good deal of time to a practical and personal study of farm problems and to the improvement of the farm organizations of which he is the active head. He has arrived, now at a point where he is so convinced that the cards are stacked against the farmer that he has put himself on record as favoring the "equalization fee" in the dread McNary-Haugen...
That is the third unexpected turn in the career of Frank O. Lowden--the turn that has made a man of immense wealth and strong business ties the captain of a farm revolt and a herectic in Wall Street...
...This would give him a bloc of about three hundred delegates in the convention. The estimate is optimistic but not impossible. For, as Mark Sullivan has pointed out, the present disposition of Lowden's rivals is not to oppose him in the States which his friends regard as his farm constituency, partly because they think Lowden will win these States any-way and partly "because the Republican leaders do not want to give further occasion for seeming unsympathetic to the Corn Belt...