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Died. Frank Orren Lowden, 82, onetime Governor of Illinois, U.S. Congressman (1906-11), longtime Republican leader; in Tucson. Born in a log cabin, a blacksmith's son, a lifetime farmer, he was heavy Presidential timber after his economy-&-reform administration of Illinois, but lost the nomination to Warren Harding as a result of a last-minute smear involving campaign expenses. Four years later, he lost the nomination to Calvin Coolidge. rejected the nomination for vice president. He had previously turned down other high Government posts: McKinley offered him the First Assistant Postmaster Generalship, Taft wanted to make him Assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 29, 1943 | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

From an island in the St. Lawrence River, near Alexandria Bay, N.Y., where Frank Orren Lowden, 80, has his palatial summer home, came a statement of clear, unqualified opposition to the nation's policy in a world at war. GOPatriarch Lowden, who was a great Governor of Illinois and missed the Presidency by a hair in 1920, was a name to conjure with in days gone by. To go along with him on the statement, 14 other potent signatures of a slightly younger vintage were rounded up. Then Patriarch Lowden, who once was a brave Midwestern anti-isolationist, handed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Blast | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

Birthdays. William II, onetime German Emperor, his 82nd, in excellent health but still planted at Doom, Holland. Said he: "Old trees cannot be transplanted." Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois and G. O. Patriarch, his 80th, in Oregon, Ill. Said he: "I think we are becoming altogether too pessimistic. I look forward with faith and hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 3, 1941 | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Names. The embattled committeemen and committeewomen sought to solve their problem soothingly with Names. Those bruited outside the meeting, ranging in age and political experience from 35-year-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh to Illinois' 76-year-old ex-Governor Frank Orren Lowden, were so numerous that the committee decided to pick some 150 instead of 100 philosophers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: 100 Philosophers | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Month ago at the Sinnissippi farm of onetime (1917-21) Governor Frank Orren Lowden, near Oregon, Ill., the two Republican chieftains met and announced that they were "in agreement on every essential problem." This meant that they were not prepared to disagree in public. However, last fortnight in Topeka, Alf Landon called a national radio mass-meeting, spoke his mind on the state of the Union for half an hour (TIME, Nov. 1), without so much as a lukewarm mention for Herbert Hoover's biggest political plan. Last week, addressing a meeting of 3,000 Republicans in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Strategists Differ | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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