Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Called upon Congress to pass the pending Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill which would appropriate $100,000,000 to the States for school purposes...
Gahan has promised to continue his popular imitation of the nations's leading orchestras which proved so successful at the last Freshman dance. To the rivalry between Benny Goodman and Glen Gray for the dancer's faver, he will add some now and interesting imitations of Fletcher Henderson's band...
John Pelley's two biggest functions, however, are fronting for the roads before Congress and Labor. In the first capacity he is ably assisted by Robert Virgil Fletcher, a courtly onetime Mississippi judge whose dignity and patience have made him popular with Congressional committees. Now 67, sharp of wit, lucid in explanation, Lawyer-Lobbyist Fletcher heads A.A.R.'s legal department, likes to make speeches like the one he gave last week in St. Paul against government regulation and government ownership. Currently A.A.R. is lobbying, with the support of Labor, for the repeal of the "long-&-short haul" clause...
...past half-hour, in the presence of the House and Senate assembled, Vice President Garner had been opening, Senators George and Austin. Representatives Tinkham and Fletcher counting, the vote of the Electoral College. State by State the landslide vote piled up. At the end the Vice President did not bother to announce the awesome total...
...Senator Glass, who since the death of Senator Fletcher has been senior member of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee with the right to become its chairman, made a difficult decision. Although banking has been his specialty for many years, he renounced his opportunity to become chief arbiter of future banking bills in order to retain his present chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee-and his hold on the New Deal's purse strings...