Word: lowdenism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editor Cleveland recalled that Delta Upsilon, to which Charles Evans Hughes as well as the Vice President belongs, "gave Garfield to the Presidency"; that Beta Theta Pi has never "given" any one to the Presidency but that it enrolls Frank Orren Lowden, William Edgar Borah, Robert Marion La Follette. "And here is a scoop. . . . Harry F. Sinclair ... is a Phi Gamma Delta brother of President Coolidge. Will Hays is a former National President of Phi Delta Theta, which gave us President Benjamin Harrison...
...Ohio held a primary and Hooverized 31 of the state's 51 convention votes, a far larger majority than had been expected. Women's votes were heavily pro-Hoover. The balance of 20 delegates, technically instructed for the late Candidate Willis, were mostly committed to Candidate Lowden as second choice and Non-Candidate Dawes for third. An embarrassing feature was the defeat of Senator Simeon D. Fess as a delegate-at-large. The G. O. P. had already picked him as convention keynoter. But his admission to the convention, it was thought, could be arranged by obtaining...
...Party conventions elsewhere during the week strengthened other candidates only sparingly. Oklahoma Republicans urged their 20 delegates to vote first for Curtis, then for Lowden. Nevada Republicans decided not to instruct their nine delegates. Arizona's nine were reported to favor Candidate Lowden, but were not instructed. Alaska Republicans did not instruct their two delegates. The standing of delegates instructed or fairly claimed for all G. O. P. candidates as of last weekend was: Hoover, 359; Lowden, 211; Curtis, 24; Norris, 11; Borah...
...result of last week's political convulsion in Republican Illinois (see p. 11) was the acquisition of 49 of his home State's 61 delegates by Candidate Lowden. Other victories in the Midwest having brought the Lowden delegates to a total of 183, Clarence F. Buck, the Lowden impresario, announced that Mr. Lowden would be nominated at Kansas City on the fourth ballot...
...oldtime enemy, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago. Mr. Emmerson ran as a champion of virtue-yet Mr. Emmerson was for years a Small henchman and it was he who passed the checks to some Missouri delegates in 1920, causing the scandal that deprived Frank Orren Lowden of that year's presidential nomination...