Word: fletcherism
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...There will be no serious attempt in the 74th Congress to establish a Central Bank in the United States, replacing the Federal Reserve System, Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee predicted today...
...rank & file of Republican politicians, those who had jobs at stake, did not hold with Mr. Mills nor did they dare to side with Mr. Fletcher, to attack such a moneyed institution as the New Deal. The only substantial basis for hope that Chairman Fletcher has had during his five months labors was the fact that businessmen have gradually found the New Deal distasteful-a fact first reported by observers; then confirmed by a small Literary Digest poll indicating that the New Deal had lost 10% of its supporters since the Digest's big poll in May; and finally...
Whatever business support the Administration may have lost, political observers agreed last week that the great bulk of the U. S. voters were, if not in heart and soul at least in pocketbook, ardently in favor of the New Deal. Henry Prather Fletcher and all good Republicans hoped that there would be many surprises in the election returns. Any unexpected result on Nov. 6 was bound to be in their favor...
...grows sorrier. The Bishop offers her only the cold comfort of a nunnery. The Atheist is unhappily God-obsessed. The Old Woman, lamenting a lost soldier-lover, maunders about placing wreaths on a huge and sombre War memorial. Only The Dreamer, bravely played by curly-headed Bramwell Fletcher, stands up for The Young Whore when, as she is expiring, the wretched, drum-beating regiment of Down-And-Outs come to carry her off to perdition. This final scene finds Mr. O'Casey at his stoical, bitter best...
...December 1789, eight of the Bounty mutineers, under their leader, Fletcher Christian, with 18 Polynesian natives, landed on Pitcairn's Island. Tiny (two miles by one) but isolated and fertile, it looked like a safe refuge from the long arm of the British Government. Safe in that respect it proved to be but at the end of ten years only one man and ten women were left alive; "of the sixteen dead, fifteen had come to violent ends." Principal causes of dissension were women and liquor. There were not enough women to go around; when one of the colony...