Word: lowdenism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lowden, however, did not do in 1920 what he had done in 1904; pick up the pieces and begin again. After 1904 he had shifted his objective and aimed his efforts at another office. In 1920 he stood pat. Harding offered him a chance to continue in active politics, inviting him to accept the post of Secretary of the Navy. Lowden refused. He knew nothing about the work that had been offered him and was frank enough...
...Lowden chose, in preference to directing the affairs of the Navy, to retire to his farm. It was a bona fide farm. He had not bought it in the first swift decline of farm prosperity with a shrewd eye to the political advantages which might accrue from being identified with a lively issue. He had bought his farm twenty-one years before this time--in 1899 and some years before his interest had ever turned to politics. Gradually the farm had grown until in 1920 it comprised more than a thousand acres. The job of reorganizing it and making...
...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...
Whether this remark carried, as early as 1924, the 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...
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...