Word: lowden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spotted in Chicago boarding a train for Arizona, Illinois' old onetime Governor Frank Orren Lowden cheerfully ex plained that inasmuch as his dairy farm near Rockford was submerged by water and ice, he had nothing to do but travel...
...relaxation as well as a sense of service to agriculture through their Hoistem breeding efforts are Colonel H. F du Pont of Delaware; Colonel Fred Pabst of Milwaukee-George Rasmussen of National Tea: E. H. Maytag of washing-machine fame: F. E. Murphy of the Minneapolis Tribune; Governor Lowden of Illinois; T.B. Macaulay of the Sun Life in Canada; Ogden Mills, Owen D. Young, Daniel Willard. . . . M. S. PRESCOTT...
...graduating class of Drake University: "Will government permit you to breathe the pure air of liberty in the spirit of the Bill of Rights?" Then, whisk, and the Hoover motor car flashed into Illinois and up the driveway to Sinnissippi Farm, 5,000-acre country seat of Frank Orren Lowden...
...historic occasion. In 1928 Mr. Lowden was Herbert Hoover's chief rival for the Republican nomination. When the party platform at Kansas City went rankly reactionary, the progressive son-in-law of the late George Pullman (sleeping cars) withdrew in a huff, left the convention delegates with but one answer to the question "Who but Hoover?" Last week Mr. Lowden, 74. was no longer a candidate but his work and words were still an important factor in Midwestern Republicanism. And furthermore he was about to be the chief speaker at a great Republican rally at Springfield, Ill. Mr. Hoover...
Then the convention opened and Frank Lowden rose to contribute his keynote address. Said he: "The preservation of the basic principles of the Constitution: this is the supreme issue of the hour...