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...Britain a baby was dedicated to Communism. George Fletcher, a Sheffield Communist leader, did the job. Said...
...Ambassador to Brussels, to replace Mr. Fletcher, the President nominated William Phillips, 45, Under Secretary of State. He began his diplomatic service as private secretary to the late J. H. Choate, Ambassador to the Court of St. James. His next place was as Second Secretary of the American Legation at Peking as direct successor of Mr. Fletcher. His subsequent service was mostly at the State Department in Washington. From 1920 to 1922 he was Minister tp the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Then he again succeeded Mr. Fletcher-this time as Under Secretary of State. Now he is scheduled once more...
...Confirmed the nomination of Henry P. Fletcher, Ambassador to Belgium, to be Ambassador to Italy. ¶ Adopted a House resolution appropriating $100,000 for expenses of special counsel in investigating oil scandals...
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium: "People in Brussels are saying that I and my boy Leopold, Crown Prince, will lose a brilliant golf partner when U. S. Ambassador Henry Prather Fletcher is transferred down to Italy...
...individual events, there are several reasons for the failure of the University entrants to show as much as had been expected. A fall at the start of the two-mile run spoiled Cutcheon's chances of placing. Fletcher, though leading his heat in the hurdles, was disqualified as a hurdle which he had barely touched tottered over. In the shot put, a recurrence of Eastman's old football injury kept him from making the distances which had been expected of him. And Berglund, still an inexperienced weight thrower, fouled in a throw of 48 feet which would have brought...