Word: lowdenism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lowden was not far behind with a total of 289 1-2 on the fourth ballot, which makes his nomination a possibility if old guard forces in the shape of Sproul adherents and other delegates of the same order should swing...
...before any of the present leaders can obtain the 492 votes necessary for nomination. A rumor at Chicago late last night had it that a caucus of leaders had selected Hughes as the man who would be brought up when it appeared definitely impossible to nominate either Wood or Lowden. Sproul was also mentioned as a possible choice...
Wood,314 1-2 Lowden, 289 Johnson, 141 1-2 Sproul, 109 1-2 Harding, 51 1-2 Coolidge, 25 LaFollette, 22 Poindexter, 15 Butler, 20 Hoover, 5 Knox, 4 Watson, 4 Sutherland, 3 Dupont, 2 Borah...
...enactment of presidential primary laws, which provide a vast machinery that must be lubricated by much money. Nobody can get through its intricacies and achieve a nomination unless he expends much of his own money or somebody else's money. And now it has been shown that Governor Lowden spent several hundred thousand dollars of his own money, and General Wood and Senator Johnson spent several hundred thousand dollars of other people's money, a great hue and cry is raised...
...Watson, almost without opposition. As adopted, the platform contains a scathing denunciation of President Wilson, and the Democratic administration. On the League of Nations the plank is vaguely phrased, in regard to the future. The nominations are to take place at tomorrow's session, with the Wood, Johnson, and Lowden forces ready for a pitched battle, and a chance for Hughes, Knox, or Coolidge after the first clash is over...