Word: mclendel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons, who resigned as leader of the North Carolina Democracy and said he would vote for neither Smith nor Hoover, last week openly joined the anti-Smith Democrats. He repeated the gist of his pre-nomination statements: "I am profoundly convinced that the election of Governor Smith would be unfortunate alike to the party and the country." Reason: Tammany...
...Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons, resigned leader of the North Carolina Democracy, announced that he would not vote for Nominee Smith -nor for Nominee Hoover...
Then a little parched figure arose, on the 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...
...Last week it was tax cutting, to start with. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce had called for a tax cut of 400 millions with special relief for corporations. Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the potent Senate Finance Committee, was in Washington talking about a tax cut of perhaps 500 millions. President Coolidge sharply announced that, with a U. S. debt of 18 billions, a tax cut of 500 millions was out of the question and 400 millions was immoderate. He strongly favored some tax reduction, he said, but would not say how much. Prior...
...with a shrewd move that President Coolidge sought to counteract the Democratic fervor which grew loud with the election returns. He knew that as soon as Congress opened in December there would be a clamor for a general tax reduction, that Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee, and many another anti-Administration man would champion such a plan. So what could be wiser than for the President to be Champion Tax Cutter No. 1? In the first Cabinet meeting after election day he explained his scheme, then he held a short conference with...