Word: hoovercrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until Mr. Roosevelt unexpectedly boosted him into the Cabinet. Responsible for the boost was William Gibbs McAdoo whose Madison Square Garden fight for the Presidency Mr. Roper managed. The Roper appointment infuriates the Al Smith faction of the party, for in 1928 the new Secretary of Commerce became a Hoovercrat by default when he sailed for Europe. Loose-jowled, bespectacled old "Dan" Roper is nominally from South Carolina, where he was born and where he still has two cotton plantations. But for the last 13 years he has lived in Washington as a lawyer, showing clients how to reduce their...
...yacht tender at Newport in 1923 and was drowned?Dr. Few used to ride with them in their ponycart. Like many another Duke official, he is a Rotarian. A friend of North Carolina's hard-bitten little Methodist ex-Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons, he was like him a leading Hoovercrat. Many North Carolinians believe Dr. Few to be a shrewd, astute politician backed by the Duke Endowment, heading a powerful lobby which could swing the election, for example, of a Methodist bishop, or aid in such an appointment as that of Hoovercrat Frank R. McNinch to the Federal Power Commission...
Another of TIME'S well received and cheerfully acknowledged mistakes. Page 13, issue of Feb. 9, last column makes reference to J. J. Parker "Hoovercrat." 'Tis not thus. Judge Parker is an iron bound; rock ribbed; dyed in the wool; etc., Republican. Our "Hoovercrat," one of the few left of an 86,000 majority in 1928, is Frank R. McNinch of Charlotte, now on the Federal Power Commission. Both are esteemed citizens...
Much to the surprise of many a regular North Carolina Democrat, the Senate last week confirmed (47-to-11; the appointment of Frank R. McNinch, a 1928 North Carolina Hoovercrat, to be a Democratic member of the reorganized Federal Power Commission. Approved at the same time were the four other commissioners: Chairman George Otis Smith, Ralph B. Williamson, Marcel Garsaud, Claude L. Draper. The McNinch appointment precipitated a great deal of senatorial controversy as to just what constitutes a Democrat. Five Democratic members of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee disapproved Appointee McNinch's Democracy, voted against recommending his confirmation...
...regular Dry Democrat who supported the Brown Derby in 1928, Senator- designate Morrison was at once confronted with a major and perhaps controlling decision in the case of his fellow townsman. Frank R. McNinch, appointed as a Hoovercrat to the Federal Power Commission...