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...Davis and chief of engineers General Hadwin. ¶Four days after Governor Martineau, along came Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania, to extend invitations for this and that and to judge for himself of Mr. Coolidge's political intentions. When he left he was saying: "Hughes . .. Hoover . . . Dawes . . . Lowden." ¶ The President kept himself busy announcing major appointments. First and foremost was his new Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight W. Morrow of Manhattan (see The Cabinet). Next, Roy Archibald Young of Minneapolis was designated a member of the Federal Reserve Board, to succeed Daniel Richard Crissinger (resigned) as governor...
...Coolidge's adamant refusal to call a special session of Congress to deal with the flood emergency and his veto of the McNary-Haugen Bill (farm relief). Mayor Thompson hailed him as one of the greatest friends of the Mississippi Valley in the White House. Of onetime Governor Lowden he said: "There's a man who says he wants to be President. He does not state any principles or stand four-square." He added: "My grandfather put up the first $25,000 for Pullman to build his first sleep-ing-car in order that his daughter [Mrs. Lowden...
...Republican party was genuinely "stunned" but it soon recovered poise. Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington observers, pictured the G. O. P. proper as a body of hard-working politicians like Senators Smoot, Willis and David A. Reed, Secretary Mellon, Vice President Dawes, Frank O. Lowden, Nicholas Longworth ? men among whom Calvin Coolidge is, by temperament and tradition, a virtual stranger. These men, thought Mr. Sullivan, would be sorry to lose so good a vote-getter as Calvin Coolidge but ? personal ambitions quite aside ? they would not seek to nominate him now because that would be "the sort...
...suddenly learned that the big solo part might have to be reassigned. While the performers tuned up and decided what to play, their friends bowed to the audience to make preliminary introductions. Henry Ford bowed for Herbert C. Hoover. William Randolph Hearst bowed for Andrew W. Mellon. Frank 0. Lowden rushed home to Illinois from the Thousand Islands and repeated his favorite cryptogram about no man ever running away from the presidency. Vice President Dawes clenched his pipe in a grin and said he would "saw wood...
...State Lodge. Also, Mr. McKelvie had been at the President's South Dakota Executive Office just before making his speech and was reported to have gone over it with Everett Sanders, Secretary to the President. Thus reporters, logical, deductive, concluded that he had officially . opened fire on the Lowden boom and prophesied that the onetime Governor of Nebraska would be the sometime pre-convention Coolidge Manager in the farm belt...