Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tossing upon the tide of convulsive charges against Candidate Smith by Senator J. Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, was an allegation that scads of money had been spent for the Brown Derby in North Carolina. The Senate's campaign funds investigating committee went to Raleigh, N. C., and asked people-in-a-position-to-know. The total of Smith money exposed...
...Senate aisle, hard behind the seat of Democratic-Leader Robinson, whose lieutenant the little man is. It was 74-year-old Furnifold McLendel Simmons, Senator from North Carolina these 27 years, political uncle of Josephus Daniels and William Gibbs McAdoo, unchallenged boss Democrat of his State?until after the Brown Derby's visit to Biltmore, N. C., in April. During that visit, younger men in the State took a look at a man who seemed to promise a supremacy greater than that of little old Senator Simmons. Editorials appeared. Letters went around. Finally, the Senate investigators turned up, instead...
Senator Simmons would not accuse the Raleigh witnesses of lying. He did not grow noisy about it like Senator Heflin. But he was convinced that North Carolina was convinced that the Brown Derby was corruptive. Moreover, he said, Smith would be defeated in North Carolina "four or five to one." He paused for breath and then reiterated, that Candidate Smith's "derelictions" would be exposed, by the Republicans...
...days later, delegates to North Carolina's state convention were elected in North Carolina's 100 counties. Returns were confused but the Brown Derby was clearly defeated. Senator Simmons was content. He still commanded his state. "They considered me the leader in the South against Smith's candidacy," he said...
...small brown beast, spry as a witch and ugly as a gargoyle, was perched on the top of a freight engine when it drew into the station of Greenfield, Mass. As the train stopped, several persons tried to grasp the gargoyle's tail. Annoyed and impudent, he snapped it out of reach and hopped away through the freight yard. When finally captured in the corner of a box car, he was discovered to be a ridiculous hobo monkey who had escaped from a circus and boarded the freight train several towns away...