Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uses 15 men, and in his recordings he uses only six. After he gets his bing gang together, Fats wants to have a chain of orchestras. "I wants to grab all dose cats that sings and put 'em in Fats Waller units," he said. Fats' favorite colored band is Fletcher Henderson's, while his pet white orchestra is Tommy Dorsey's. He prefers Ambrose to Ray Noble...
...week his body was brought to the undertaking rooms two floors below where he had dined. He was dressed in his frock coat and encased in a copper casket stippled over with silver which was stood in the same gloomy corner where the caskets of Senator Walsh and Senator Fletcher stood not long ago. The next morning 15 Senators led by Assistant Leader Barkley appeared at Hysong's. By orders of Mrs. Robinson nobody was to see the body, so they settled themselves in the room across the corridor, where food and drink were brought them and they remained...
...Administration had 435,000 needy students on its lists, WPA had given work to 42,000 unemployed teachers, there have been 1,500,000 youngsters in the CCC. To NEA, however, this tale of generosity did not atone for the fact that the Association's pet Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill, providing Federal school subsidies up to $300,000,000 a year to the States, was sidetracked this year by the President when he sent his economy message to Congress. Ohio's fiery Representative Brooks Fletcher appeared at the convention to complain...
...convention once more resolved to plump for the Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill, encouraged NEA's adult education section to strike Congress for another $25,000,000 to eradicate illiteracy...
Dudley Kirk, Claremont, California, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy '35, assistant and tutor in Sociology; Logan Wilson, Huntsville, Texas, Texas '27, assistant and tutor in Sociology; Alexander R. Troiano '31, Boston, assistant in Metallurgy; Jack E. McKee, Knoxville, Tennessee, Carnegie Tech '36, assistant in Sanitary Engineering...