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...Fletcher Martin is city editor of the Louisville Defender when he's home but he also roamed widely as a war correspondent. He played end at Louisville Municipal College but he got in the middle of this jam, as editor...
Sitting stop the rather alarming pile of red tape connected with the handing over of a piece of government property to a private concern is a small, graying man named Fletcher W. Taft. Mr. Taft graduated from Harvard in 1907, and has since been in a flock of professions, from that of a newspaper man to heading the administrative side of the Radio Research Laboratory here during...
...description of the Columbia, Tennessee, race riots of last February 25, Fletcher P. Martin, Nieman Fellow and city editor of the Louisville Defender, said last night that the problem of race relations in the South was the responsibility of the nation and the federal government and would not be solved in the South alone...
...authority on American race relations, Fletcher P. Martin, Nieman Fellow on leave from the post of city editor on the Louisville Defender, will speak tonight on the various aspects of the Columbia, Tennessee race riots last March, before the Harvard Liberal Union and the Radcliffe League for Democracy in Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock...
Benny branched out into gambling, bookmaking and investments. He went right on prospering even after reform-minded Mayor Fletcher Bowron purged the cooperative cops, thus inviting torpedoes from all points East. There was opportunity for all in Los Angeles-the races, Hollywood, wartime black markets, herds of money-heavy aircraft workers. The newly arrived mobsters sighed happily, bought gabardine slacks and pastel sports shirts, rubbed shoulders peacefully at Vine Street bars, the baseball games and the Friday night fights at Hollywood Legion Stadium...