Word: lowden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ladder. Rule No. 8 is the last one: Don't go around without a ladder. That is, always have handy a means of climbing down from the eminence you achieve, that you may live to try again four years later. Most notable recent breaker of this rule is Lowden of Illinois who committed political suicide after losing the 1928 Republican nomination by rushing angrily off without due warning to his friends...
...hush fell over the chamber when Illinois' Representative Charles Adkins, onetime State Director of Agriculture under Governor Frank Orren Lowden, rose to remark: "If there was any proposition up which would enable the farmer to stick his hands down into Uncle Sam's rockets, I'd be for it. But I don't see that opportunity in voting 'for this debenture plan." Neither did a House majority which voted (231-to-161) to strike the proposal from the bill...
Prime mover in National Cornstalks Processes, Inc.. was onetime Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois. Last week, he became a stockholder, helped subscribe $500.000. Among other stock-holders : New York's Bernard Mannes Baruch, Chicago's Joseph Edward Otis, In-national Harvester's Herbert F. Perkins...