Word: mclendel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grasp leaving in his hand a single large tail feather. Settling on the architrave above a doorway, the ominous pigeon cooed and looked down the whole day long upon the high, industrial tariff army of Generalissimo Reed Smoot (Utah) and the low, consumer tariff army of Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons (North Carolina...
...Hometown of Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons...
...General David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, spokesman of Secretary Mellon, labored incessantly to bring their forces stout-hearted to the fray, casting side glances at stragglers (those Republicans who every now and then hinted some doubt as to the sacredness of their cause). Across the aisle, Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina urged on the troops of low-tariff-for-the-consumers. Behind him strode the body of the Democrats and their allies, Republican irregulars trooping after General Borah (of Idaho). This army too had its stragglers, Democrats here and there greedy for tariff spoils to enrich their...
...Senate last week when Montana's Wheeler offered a resolution for an investigation, at the request of President Green of the American Federation of Labor. Quickly uprose in protest North Carolina's two Senators?white-haired, old-fashioned Lee Slater Overman and small, grey-foxy Furnifold McLendel Simmons. They could see no good reason for an inquiry into North Carolina's labor troubles?and antiquated labor laws. Senator Simmons declared that if there was to be a textile strike investigation, let it include Massachusetts as well as the South. Senator Overman, pulling himself heavily to his feet, opposed investigations "costing...
Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina, oldtime Democratic State leader, now a bitter anti-Smithite. renewed his fight with a three-hour speech at Raleigh...