Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt who, in one of his inspired moments, launched the Florida Ship Canal with $5,000,000 of relief money last autumn, day after the S. S. Dixie went aground in the treacherous Florida Keys. But it was Florida's senior Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, to whom the President owed much gratitude for important New Deal service in the chairmanship of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, who got credit for selling the idea at the White House and who became its champion in the Capitol. An inland waterways enthusiast since he went to the Senate...
President Roosevelt washed his hands of the Canal and its legislative mate, Maine's Passamaquoddy Dam. Last fortnight he reconsidered, had Majority Leader Joe Robinson attempt to hitch them to the First Deficiency (Relief) Bill. Tired, ailing Senator Fletcher made a long, earnest plea for the Canal, and his colleagues, largely out of affection for the man who was senior in service to all of them except Idaho's Borah and senior in age to all except Virginia's Glass, voted a conditional $10,000,000 for the Florida ditch, though rejecting the Maine...
...Washington apartment one morning last week a heart attack brought Senator Fletcher's life to a swift close. That afternoon the House rejected the Senate's Canal amendment, 108-to-62. Next morning the Senate, convening after a recess in honor of its dead colleague, accepted the House's action without protest, let Duncan Fletcher's ditch die with...
...auditorium. The audience chattering, the band playing, the smell of fresh pine lumber, were mindful of a circus. Over the delegates, like a cumulus cloud, hung a battery of loudspeakers shrouded in gauze. The voice of a man amplified to unearthliness rumbled through the hall. Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher, a midget in white, stood in a blaze of golden light from batteries of lights above his head. Everywhere cigaret smoke curled through the blue beams of eight great floodlights glaring down from the murk upon the G. O. P.'s quadrennial passion play of politics...
...seats in the hall, two-thirds were filled. By order of Chairman Fletcher the assembly stood, sang a verse of America. The Rev. Dr. Albert Joseph McCartney (Presbyterian) offered the first of a series of Convention prayers which included Methodist, Jewish and Roman Catholic-all of them indicating clearly that in 1936 God, if not victory, will be found on the side of the Republicans...