Word: orren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Editor Cleveland recalled that Delta Upsilon, to which Charles Evans Hughes as well as the Vice President belongs, "gave Garfield to the Presidency"; that Beta Theta Pi has never "given" any one to the Presidency but that it enrolls Frank Orren Lowden, William Edgar Borah, Robert Marion La Follette. "And here is a scoop. . . . Harry F. Sinclair ... is a Phi Gamma Delta brother of President Coolidge. Will Hays is a former National President of Phi Delta Theta, which gave us President Benjamin Harrison...
...with his oldtime enemy, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago. Mr. Emmerson ran as a champion of virtue-yet Mr. Emmerson was for years a Small henchman and it was he who passed the checks to some Missouri delegates in 1920, causing the scandal that deprived Frank Orren Lowden of that year's presidential nomination...
...National Crime Commission, to which national figures volunteer their energy, intelligence and time-Frank Orren Lowden as chairman of a subcommittee on pardons, penal laws and institutional correction; Newton Diehl Baker as chairman of a committee on rehabilitating criminals and acting chairman of the whole; Franklin Delano Roosevelt as chairman of a committee on legal education; F. Trubee Davison as executive committeeman -last week published a report by Mr. Lowden's committee. Written by Commissioner Louis Newton Robinson, experienced professor of economics and criminology, this report set forth, as prime cause of crime's prevalence...
...Lowden. In Illinois, the State Supreme Court declared constitutional a law substituting a primary election for the caucus system of nominating candidates for state offices, including delegates to President-nominating conventions. Underlings of Frank Orren Lowden hastened to enter his name as a primary candidate, rejoicing that he now had a chance to get nominating votes in his home State, where, while the caucus system prevailed, he was at the mercy of the State Bosses, Mayor Thompson of Chicago and Governor Len Small. Lowdenites felt better about the East, too. Following their still-pond-no-more-moving policy, State Bosses...