Word: lowdenism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost nil. except in special cases. In allegedly wavering Florida, the last minute efforts of Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the Great Commoner, Democratic candidate for Congress, will doubtless help the Brown Derby. Similarly effective, for Hooverism, has been and will be Ruth Hanna McCormick in faction-ridden Illinois. Lowden was her choice for the Republican nomination. But her father was Marcus Alonzo Hanna. Party regularity is her creed...
...slow to pick up the "Socialist" challenge. Speaking in Boston, he "called the roll" of eminent Republicans past and present whom, he said, would have to be classed as "Social ists" if he was one - the late Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Hughes, Vice President Dawes, Nominee Curtis, Frank Orren Lowden, Senator Borah, etc., etc. Nominee Smith nailed the deceptive use of the Gompers quotation and kept his whole reply on that political level. Instead of elaborating a politico-economic theory, he simply said: "There is a very wide differ ence between public ownership and public control of water power sites, which...
...third of the G. O. P. spokesmen to plead with Missouri. He went at Nominee Hoover's special request. This request breathed life into one of the most delicate political relations of the season. Soon after Mr. Houghton's mission was announced, arrived a letter from Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois, Nominee Hoover's long-sulking rival for last June's nomination. It was the first utterance of any moment that Mr. Lowden had made since withdrawing from the Kansas City convention. The Lowden letter was to Nominee Houghton. not Nominee Hoover, but it was most effusive and friendly. Ostensibly...
...reticence and invisibility had been notable if not conspicuous up to that point in the campaign. Ever since the nominations at Kansas City, Vice President Charles Gates Dawes had been a neutral factor in the election which he had once hoped would be won by his friend, Frank Orren Lowden, and in which he would gladly have played a principal part himself. The plan to introduce him as preliminary speaker in Nominee Hoover's big drive for the Brown Derby's home state was not lacking in stage effect...
When he spoke, the Nominee made the most of the prevalent suspense. He began with an exposition of Senator Borah's Inconsistent profundities. He held the Senator up as a "reckless" politician, then swiftly and smartly contrasted "the former and very distinguished Governor of your own State, Governor Lowden . . . a statesman...