Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Florida's Fletcher observed: "Well, we're getting away from Coolidge economy already...
...Possibly to be Secretary of Navy or War, Mr. Hoover's good friend Hugh Gibson, now Ambassador to Belgium, who began life in California. Also powerfully pondered were the great ambassadorships. Leading candidate for something good, possibly London: handsome, able Henry Prather Fletcher who escorted the Hoovers to and around and back from South America, and who, like Mr. Gibson, is a distinguished diplomatic career...
Thus, last week, progressed a spelling-bee held on the Utah to vary the monotony of the usual deck-games. Among other contestants were: Mrs. Hoover, Ambassador Fletcher, John R. Mott, of Montclair, N. J., Commander Augustin Beauregard and Captain C. R. Train of the Utah. Eighteen words chosen from a list containing such orthographic stumpers as "vilified," "picknicking," "Philippine," "harassed," were given to the contestants. The winners were Mr. and Mrs. Hoover. Their record: 14 right, four wrong...
...state banquet that evening, President Irigoyen, whose public silences have really been even more impressive than Calvin Coolidge's, surprised everyone by standing up and making a speech. Mr. Hoover had prepared a speech and given it to Ambassador Fletcher to read for him. When President Irigoyen sat down, President-Elect Hoover returned the compliment by recovering his own manuscript and reading it himself. An interpreter was necessary to render from English to Spanish. Mrs. Hoover speaks Spanish with moderate fluency but Mr. Hoover has never progressed beyond the meal-ordering stage...
Personal Representative Fletcher joined the Hoover party at San Pedro...