Word: mcninch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
President Hoover had no sooner appointed Frank R. McNinch, onetime mayor of Charlotte, to the reorganized Federal Power Commission as a Democrat,?than Democrats began to protest that Mr. McNinch was no good party man (TIME, Dec. 15). Appointee McNinch in 1928 had proclaimed that Alfred Emanuel Smith "procured his nomination at Houston by stealth and fraud." He had headed the State's Anti-Smith Democratic Committee, raised and spent $30,906 to turn North Carolina Republican. Last week Mr. McNinch was summoned before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to explain his politics, his qualifications...
Taking a defiant stand before the committee, Mr. McNinch admitted his 1928 Hoover vote, added that last month he voted for the Republican Congressional nominee in his district, refused to vote for the Democratic senatorial nominee (Senator-elect Josiah Bailey). He insisted he was an "independent Democrat" whom the President had offered a Federal job as long as two years ago. Only as "a public duty" in the last fortnight had he consented to take one. As for his anti-Smith expenditures, he said he had not made a full report on them because he did not know whence they...
Other Power Commissioners appointed: Frank R. McNinch, onetime mayor of Charlotte, N. C.; Ralph B. Williamson, Washington irrigation lawyer; Marcel Garsaud, member of the New Orleans Dock Board; Claude L. Draper, organizer and member of the Wyoming Public Service Commission...
When these Power Commissioners' nominations arrived at the Capitol, many a Senator bristled with innate suspicion. Opposition quickly developed to Mr. McNinch. By law his place on the Commission must go to a Democrat. But Mr. McNinch, recommended by North Carolina's "lame duck" Senator Simmons, helped lead the 1928 anti-Smith movement which turned his State Republican. Senate Democrats doubted his Democracy, sought to question him on his 1930 vote. Another charge against Commissioner McNinch-which he loudly denied-was that he had covert connections with the Duke power interests and from them secured political funds, still...