Word: lowdenizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between a Republican like Dawes or Lowden and a Democrat like Smith, we will support the Democrat"?The editors of the 26 Scripps-Howard newspapers...
...social comment outside of Chicago, because few non-Chicagoans realize that Chicago's "better element" have not only tolerance but affection for Mayor Thompson; political comment everywhere because Mayor Thompson, undoubted controller of the Illinois delegation to the Republican Convention, has been reputed an enemy of the Dawes-Lowden presidential boom...
...White House callers of the week included: Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, reputed a candidate for the G. O. P. nomination for President, to pay respects...
Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, the man without whose support Mr. Lowden cannot hope to enlist his own state delegation, continued hostile to Mr. Lowden. Mayor Thompson has enormous admiration for President Coolidge. Last week, Mr. Thompson's comment on the Coolidge statement was a clownish mixture of shrewdness and absurdity: "Well, I'll vote for him anyway...
Odds. Wall Street began laying bets on the Republican nomination. Last week's odds against: Hoover, 8 to 5; Lowden, 5 to 2; Dawes, 5 to 2; Butler, 7 to 1; Willis, 10 to 1; Longworth, 10 to 1. Against Democratic Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith's election, odds were quoted...