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...Fletcher is not a man who delights in serving lost causes. His life's labors have been directed towards successful ends. He was chosen Chairman of the Republican National Committee last June, not because he was not tied to either the reactionary or radical wings of his party, not because at that time he did not know one in five members of the Republican National Committee, but because throughout his 61 years he has often come from, behind. He is a self-made man, and, what is more unusual, a self-made man-of-the-world...
Thousands of young men enlisted for the Spanish-American War, but young Henry Fletcher, a boy without a college education, a court reporter in his native Greencastle, Pa., got a place in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Private Fletcher did not return to Greencastle from the glories of San Juan Hill, nor was his career buried when as a first lieutenant he sweated for two years through the jungles of the Philippines hunting down Aguinaldo. In 1902 his onetime commander, then in the White House, remembered him and sent him, as second secretary, to the U. S. Legation...
...good stead, both at polo which he and other junior diplomats played in the precincts of the Temple of Heaven and at poker where his winnings had to be relied on to augment his small official stipend. The day came when the State Department discovered that Henry Fletcher was also a diplomat. As chargé d'affaires at Peking in 1909, amid the rumblings that preceded the overthrow of the Empire, he proved his mettle. From then on his path was onward and upward. President Taft made him Minister to Chile. President Wilson promoted him to Ambassador, shifted...
...this long experience Henry Fletcher emerged with inscrutability, good humor, patience and a shrewd tongue. He could say sharp, cutting things when he wanted to. To a U. S.-hating Chilean who once remarked that he would not buy even a shoestring made in the U. S., Diplomat Fletcher replied: "I'm sorry the cable office isn't open today. I'd cable the President that the American shoe string industry is ruined." When Ambassador Dawes asserted that diplomacy "is easy on the head but hell on the feet," Mr. Fletcher quietly observed: "It depends on which...
...that branch of Congress from Republicans who just two years before had won a tremendous Presidential victory. As a result of the 1932 election the House today stands 308 Democrats to 113 Republicans, the Senate 60 Democrats to 35 Republicans. By all the traditions of U. S. politics. Chairman Fletcher and his G. O. Partisans should gain seats in 1934. Yet so strong still was the name of Roosevelt with the electorate and so weak were the program and personalities of his political opponents that it was generally agreed that the Republicans would probably lose anywhere up to five more...