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...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...
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...
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...