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...Frank O. Lowden was born in Minnesota in 1861, and was educated in Iowa. In 1886 he moved to Chicago to study law. After he received his bar diploma, he practiced law in Chicago with signal success: His first dash into politics was a failure; he was defeated for the gubernatorial nomination in the Illinois State convention. Two years later he was elected to the House of Representatives and there he stayed...
...National Crime Commission, to which national figures volunteer their energy, intelligence and time-Frank Orren Lowden as chairman of a subcommittee on pardons, penal laws and institutional correction; Newton Diehl Baker as chairman of a committee on rehabilitating criminals and acting chairman of the whole; Franklin Delano Roosevelt as chairman of a committee on legal education; F. Trubee Davison as executive committeeman -last week published a report by Mr. Lowden's committee. Written by Commissioner Louis Newton Robinson, experienced professor of economics and criminology, this report set forth, as prime cause of crime's prevalence...
Governor Ritchie of Maryland differs from most Presidential candidates. He has a platform. Hoover, Dawes, Smith, and Hughes are all running on their records. Lowden is running on the issue of farm relief. Donahey and Pomerene are running as Ohioans. Curtis is running on the advice of his friends. Watson is running for the Indiana delegation. Willis is running for practice or for exercise. But to date none of these gentlemen has defined his attitude toward the Presidency in any great detail...
...Presidency depends essentially upon what happens to his chief competitors. Curtis will go to the Republican convention with the twenty votes of Kansas and quite possibly with thirty more outside. What will happen to him then will depend on what has happened to the Hoover boom, the Lowden boom, the Dawes boom, and various other major and minor booms before the delegates assemble--how far short of a majority any single candidate remains, how available the engineers of the convention consider a candidate from the Middle West, strong in the Senate, popular with the farmers and yet no fire eater...
...leading candidates, five Republicans and five Democrats, will appear on the ballots in the poll. Voters will, however, be free to record any other choice which they prefer. The Republican candidates are: Charles Curtis, of Kansas; Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois; Herbert Hoover, of California; Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois; Frank B. Willis of Ohio. The Democrats include: A. Victor Donahey, of Ohio; James A. Reed, of Missouri; Albert C. Ritchie, of Maryland; Alfred E. Smith, of New York; Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana...