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Three of the four Fletcher Brothers own two gold mines in the lovely, salubrious Pis-Pis region of Nicaragua. The fourth Fletcher Brother, who has no interest in the mines, is the U. S. Ambassador to Italy, suave Henry Prather Fletcher. Last week President James Gilmore Fletcher of the mining corporations and his co-owning brothers, G. Fred & D. Watson Fletcher, all of Manhattan, were irate. President Fletcher dashed to Washington to inform Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg that much was amiss in the valley of the purling Pis-Pis River. The Fletcher mines had been seized, he declared...
...pound class--A. O. Leach '28 vs. D. T. Roberg 1M; Stuart French '29 vs. Fletcher Hodges...
...Fletcher Harper Swift, professor of education at the University of California: "There is a breadline in Chicago and a breadline in Boston which grows longer and longer and will continue to grow unless we can keep the people contented on the farms...
...Three resolutions condemning various phases of immigration restriction were adopted by the Conference in plenary session, last week. After each was read out, a U. S. Delegate, Henry Prather Fletcher, able U. S. Ambassador to Italy, rose and announced that the U. S. reserves to itself the right of determining its own "purely domestic" immigration policy without reference to any international authority whatever...
Soon after this, Fletcher of Harvard tied the world time in the 45-yard high hurdles. He gained the added distinction of being the second man who has ever tied the record twice in one day, for he had covered the distance in his trial race in the same time...