Word: lowdenizer
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...Year's Eve, John Pierpont Morgan summons his partners to No. 23 .Wall St., distributes gigantic checks as rewards for the year's work; 2) President Coolidge is kept busy answering appeals that he accept the chairmanship of the U. S. Steel Corp.; 3) Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, the onetime Miss Florence Pullman and daughter of Founder George M. Pullman, names all Pullman cars. For this labor, which reputedly occupies one half-hour each day, she earns either $100 a day or $30,000 a year...
...unexpectedly he said: "I am not insensible to the value of the study which sincere farm leaders have given to this question of farm legislation. They have all contributed to the realization that the problem must be solved. They will be invited into conference. Outstanding farmers such as Governor Lowden will be asked to join in the search for common ground upon which...
...most significant result of the Cedar Rapids' conferences which lasted two days, was the appointment, to command the G. O. P.'s farm bureau at Chicago headquarters, of John J. Oglesby. Thereby the mention of Farmers' Friend Lowden, in the West Branch speech, was underscored. Mr. Oglesby was Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois under Governor Lowden (1917-21). They are fast friends. Mr. Oglesby was a leading Lowdenizer before the nomination. Now he agreed heartily to Hooverize. Perhaps his first commission will be to soothe Mr. Lowden's lingering bitterness and bring him, reluctant but resigned, into...
Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois, farmers' friend, recessed Republican, said he was "much impressed" by the Hoover acceptance speech, called the farm relief passages "very heartening," but issued no endorsement of Hooverism...
...Smith-Peek conference and the Lowden surmise having passed into Democratic annals, Chairman Raskob pondered the name of B. F. Yoakum. A long letter bearing that signature had followed Mr. Peek into Democratic headquarters. Benjamin F. Yoakum is a Democrat, a retired railroad executive* who developed the southwest's farming much as the late James J. Hill developed the northwest's. In his Manhattan office, he has been spending recent years offering sane and respected solutions of economic problems. Six years ago he suggested a plan of funding World War debts to the U. S., which in broad...