Word: mcninch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Last month President Hoover sent to the Senate for confirmation the nominations of five new Federal Power Commissioners? George Otis Smith. Claude Draper, Marcel Garsaud, Frank McNinch and Ralph B. Williamson. After the usual fussing, the Senate confirmed all five a day or two before it adjourned for the Christmas holiday. Organizing immediately as a quorum, Commissioners Smith, Draper and Garsaud promptly dismissed several old employes of the Commission. Two of them were Chief Accountant William V. King and Solicitor Charles A. Russell. Because Messrs. King & Russell had cut quite a large public figure bucking private power companies when haled...
...Senators Borah, Norris, Brookhart, Dill and Wheeler, promising support to Senator Walsh, clamored to have the question reopened. A report spread that Chairman Smith and his two Commissioners, to avert a Senate explosion which might blow them out of their new jobs, were considering rehiring Messrs. Russell & King. Commissioner McNinch, not yet in office, wired his "surprise" from North Carolina that his colleagues had broken their pledge not to deal with personnel until after...
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...
With the North Carolina House delegation and many a potent State officer against Appointee McNinch, Democratic Senate Leader Robinson lined up his party to fight his confirmation in a rough & tumble floor debate, unless the President withdrew the name...