Word: lowdenism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candidate Dawes said last winter he would work for the Lowden nomination to the end. He will not do it at Kansas City. When the Convention begins he will be attending the graduation exercises at Marietta College in his native Marietta, Ohio. That is where he went just before he was nominated in 1924. Mr. Lowden had refused that nomination. Mr. Dawes instantly accepted it. It is improbable that that bit of history will even paraphrase itself this year. Yet it is also historic that the Vice President's relative, William Dawes, rode on the same errand as Paul...
...Lowden's nomination...
...Lowden, 273½ (85 disputed...
Last fortnight the U. S. farmer was pronounced embattled by Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska. Other politicians supporting Candidate Lowden for the Presidency chimed in. They said the U. S. farmer was angry because President Coolidge had vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill, which contained a sales tax ("equalization fee") to be levied on consumers to guarantee the U. S. farmer higher prices. Governor McMullen called for a "crusade" of 100,000 farmers, to demonstrate at the G. O. P. Convention in Kansas City. Governor McMullen went to Chicago and there declared that the number of farmers who would actually...
Candidate Lowden's manager in Kansas City announced that each crusading farmer would be in uniform: overalls and straw...