Word: lowdenizer
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...which we are living presents a challenge to the men whom the people of this nation have placed in positions of high responsibility. Either they must do what needs to be done'... or they must make way for others who will." (Governor Hammill is a pronounced Lowden man.) Then Governor McMullen said: "The time is past for the farmer to plead for what he should have. The time is here for him to demand what is rightfully his. We should challenge the right of any administration ... to proceed further in the industrialization of the nation at the expense...
...Rapid City, S. Dak., took luncheon seats one day last week, waited expectantly for onetime Governor Samuel McKelvie of Nebraska to address them on the topic of the beauty of the Black Hills. But Mr. McKelvie gave no beauty talk. Instead, he assailed onetime (1917-21) Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois for telling farmers that such federal organizations as the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Reserve Banks were examples of what the government might, if so inclined, do for farmers. Mr. McKelvie was grieved to think that Mr. Lowden had supposed that farmers would like a federal commission...
...fixing for its disposition were outstanding features of the McNary-Haugen bill.) "I can see," added Mr. McKelvie, "the possibility, aye, the probability, of a system of cooperative marketing fostered by the government under which the farmer may retain his independence and initiative while working out his problems." The Lowden program, Mr. McKelvie observed, "shows how far afield politically minded men will go" when discussing the topic of farm relief...
Farsighted politicians predicted that if Senator McMaster tried to secure the South Dakota presidential nominating delegation for one-time (1917-21) Governor Lowden of Illinois or for Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska while Senator Norbeck favored President Coolidge, the State might see a hot inter-Senatorial battle. But there always remained the possibility that Senator Norbeck's association with the President has been personal rather than political and that South Dakota's two Senators, who stood side by side when the McNary-Haugen bill was put through Congress, would continue their alliance long after the President should have returned...
Republican nomination for President." Observers agree that both statements permit the interpretation that Mr. Lowden is receptive...