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...reticence and invisibility had been notable if not conspicuous up to that point in the campaign. Ever since the nominations at Kansas City, Vice President Charles Gates Dawes had been a neutral factor in the election which he had once hoped would be won by his friend, Frank Orren Lowden, and in which he would gladly have played a principal part himself. The plan to introduce him as preliminary speaker in Nominee Hoover's big drive for the Brown Derby's home state was not lacking in stage effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Full Garage | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...interest in connection with the present election campaign is the fact that in the straw ballot conducted in the University on May 4, 1920 for the nominations for the respective parties, Hoover carried both Harvard and Princeton in the balloting. The figures follow: Hoover 1121 Wood 632 Johnson 117 Lowden 79 Coolidge 44 Hughes 31 Taft 21 Scattered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson's Straw Votes of Past Show Harvard as Republican | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

This year the Midwest loomed more important than ever because it was throughout the Midwest that the Hoover nomination was most bitterly opposed. In Ohio there was Willis; in Indiana, Watson; in Illinois, Lowden; in Nebraska, Norris; in Kansas, Curtisall, except Lowden and Curtis, more downright anti-Hooverish than outright ambitious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In the Midlands | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...named Hainer Hinshaw. The office believes he is a distant relative of the Nominee. . . . One of the department heads is Col. Hanford MacNider. who resigned last winter as Assistant Secretary of War and in June got mentioned for the Vice Presidency. Another (Oh. shrewd Mr. Good) is Farmer Lowden's good friend, James G. Oglesby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In the Midlands | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...first legend has been repeatedly scotched; the second, never. The third legend received, last week, a thorough scotching. The Pullman Co. peremptorily denied that Mrs. Lowden ever named a Pullman car. She inspired neither Belvedere nor Beauregard. And at the same time, the company revealed tricks and twists of naming its 9,000 cars. Among piquant twists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Scotched Legend | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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