Word: orren
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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...
Highlighting two sessions of summer crew, three Crimson shells raced down the half-mile course on the Charles yesterday afternoon, Orren Wood's winning neavies crossing the finish line two and a half lengths ahead of the Navy pennant waving optimistically on the bow of the N.T.S. shell...
...heavy boat, paced by Orren Wood, stroke of last year's undefeated Freshman heavies, has been out on the river steadily since the beginning of the term...
Harvard Heavy: Orren Wood, stroke; Sneider, 7; Stone, 6; Donald, 5; Parkman, 4; Sohier, 3; White, 2; and Campbell...
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...