Word: lowden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former Secretary of War; Charles E. Hughes, recent Secretary of State; Ethel Roosevelt Derby, daughter of the late President; Franklin D. Roosevelt, recent candidate for Vice President; Dr. E. A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia; Hugh Frayne of the American Federation of Labor; ex-Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois; Charles H. Sabin of the Guarantee Trust Co. (Manhattan); many another...
...June in Chicago in the year 1920 saw three gentlemen struggling to become the Republican nominee for the Presidency. There were Frank O. Lowden and Leonard Wood locked in a deadly political embrace, and there was Hiram Johnson of California harrying the flanks of both with his delegations gathered through the primaries of states here and yon. On the outskirts to be sure were the friends of Senator Harding of Ohio, preparing a little coup...
...Administration Attitude. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine is doing all he can to placate the farmers. Within a few days he is to confer in Washington with farm editors, with farm leaders of note (Frank 0. Lowden, Aaron Shapiro, Sam Thompson), with a conference of cooperative marketing associations. Some of the supporters of the Administration's position blame Iowa's troubles largely on Iowa's banks. Iowa normally feeds about four fifths of her corn to hogs. Last year the corn crop was small, and Iowa farmers sold many hogs, presumably under bankers' advice. This year the corn crop is large...
...moderate group of price fixers?the Lowden group they may be called?propose an alternative. They suggest that the domestic price be fixed by a sort of gigantic co-operative marketing association, which will then sell its surplus abroad at a loss, this loss instead of being taken by the Government as price fixer to be prorated among the producers. In this way, they contend, the loss on the surplus prorated among the producers, would tend to act as a deterrent to overproduction...
...upwards of $14,000,000. Done. Debenture bonds amounting to $8,000,000 will be floated by Halsey, Stuart & Co. and Kissel, Kinnicutt & Co. Subscribers to the $6,000,000, headed by Mr. Strong, include Reuben H. Donnelley, J. V. Farwell II, Thomas D. Jones, Frank O. Lowden, Joseph E. Otis, James A. Patten, George F. Porter, Julius Rosenwald, Harold Swift, Lucius Teter. Mr. Strong, long active in the business, now controls. So highly is he regarded that when a Chicagoan heard casually at a dinner party that Mr. Strong might not get the paper, he said...