Word: lowdenism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis, Mo., where midwestern and southern delegates demanded immediate legislation by Congress to "enable the farmers to control and manage excess of crops at their own expense, so as to secure cost of production with reasonable profit." They approved of the Federal Farm Board plan, backed by Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. They defended the farm bloc as a political unit. Just as onetime Governor Lowden is the potent friend of farmers in the Republican party, so is Edwin T. Meredith, Iowa farm journal publisher, onetime Secretary of Agriculture, their Democratic friend. If, by some upheaval of politics, the farm...
...Roosevelt letters prior to their break will be published, among others, posthumously. Two handsome young matrons, Mrs. Alfred F. Madlener, and Mrs. John B. Drake Jr., daughter-in-law of John B. Drake (hotels), went to Chicago's grimy LaSalle street station to greet their father, Frank O. Lowden, the Farmer's Friend, as he stepped off the Twentieth Century Limited, home again after two months of watching German and Scandinavian farmers at their chores. The family party-Mrs. Lowden was with her husband-went first to the Drake-owned Blackstone Hotel, then to "Sinnissippi...
...Frank O. Lowden, returning home, gave utterance to an enthusiasm: "The Danes are the most thoroughly organized farmers in the world. Their co-operative enterprise covers both the production and distribution of farm products as well as the manufacture of such products as condensed milk, butter, bacon and other pork derivatives. It attends to its own financing, marketing and exporting. The organization functions on a nation-wide basis. The middleman is absolutely eliminated...
...also several normal regulars: Gooding, Watson, Cummins, Deneen, McNary. The first three of the latter were up for reelection. Mr. Cummins in particular, faced Senator Brookhart, "the farmers' friend." But the politics of the situation reaches even further than the election of 1926?it reaches to 1928. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois was on hand in Washington, openly advocating farm relief of the Haugen type...
...whole situation is based on hypothesis. If a bill of the Haugen type is passed, the President will have the alternative of vetoing it. If farm depression continues, Mr. Lowden (staunch Republican with eyes to the West) and whatever Democrats and Republicans stood for the Haugen bill, will have a first-rate issue in 1928. By contrary, if the President should approve such a bill, the Government would probably get into financial hot water before...