Word: lowden
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...talked with "recently believe that the party has a "wealth of good Presidential timber." But the news of the G.O.P. National Committee meeting in Chicago last week was that the race is now clearly between Willkie and Dewey. True, they might still kill each other off, as Wood and Lowden did at Chicago in 1920. And the prospect of a repetition of that tragic convention hung smokily over the nation and the party. But for the moment, Dewey and Willkie had left the rest of the field far behind...
Died. Frank Orren Lowden, 82, onetime Governor of Illinois, U.S. Congressman (1906-11), longtime Republican leader; in Tucson. Born in a log cabin, a blacksmith's son, a lifetime farmer, he was heavy Presidential timber after his economy-&-reform administration of Illinois, but lost the nomination to Warren Harding as a result of a last-minute smear involving campaign expenses. Four years later, he lost the nomination to Calvin Coolidge. rejected the nomination for vice president. He had previously turned down other high Government posts: McKinley offered him the First Assistant Postmaster Generalship, Taft wanted to make him Assistant...
From an island in the St. Lawrence River, near Alexandria Bay, N.Y., where Frank Orren Lowden, 80, has his palatial summer home, came a statement of clear, unqualified opposition to the nation's policy in a world at war. GOPatriarch Lowden, who was a great Governor of Illinois and missed the Presidency by a hair in 1920, was a name to conjure with in days gone by. To go along with him on the statement, 14 other potent signatures of a slightly younger vintage were rounded up. Then Patriarch Lowden, who once was a brave Midwestern anti-isolationist, handed...
Birthdays. William II, onetime German Emperor, his 82nd, in excellent health but still planted at Doom, Holland. Said he: "Old trees cannot be transplanted." Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois and G. O. Patriarch, his 80th, in Oregon, Ill. Said he: "I think we are becoming altogether too pessimistic. I look forward with faith and hope...