Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida Canal, Congress must first authorize their construction. President Roosevelt had neglected to ask Congress for such authorization. Therefore last winter the House declined to appropriate funds for Quoddy and the Florida Canal when the War Department Appropriation bill was passed. In the Senate Florida's Senator Fletcher fought in vain for his Florida Canal (TIME, March 30). Quoddy, however, was not even fought for Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Hale quietly told the Senate that so far as he was concerned he did not favor any appropriation for Quoddy in the War Department bill; if President Roosevelt...
...This thought did not appear so frightening to Senator Vandenberg. Snorted he: "If the farmer who made that $298.000 for not planting so many thousands of acres of cotton has a daughter, she must be a girl without a soul. That farmer was a corporation." Republican Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher chimed in: "It is unbecoming to the Secretary of Agriculture to behave and talk as though he were playing a low comedy role in vaudeville." Promptly Secretary Wallace explained in his Iowa drawl that he had said the "farmer's dollar," not the "farmer's daughter...
There is no reason why confidence should again be deposited in a man so grotesquely visionary that he takes no account of his decisive defeats and asks for permission to butt his head against the wall that raised such a welt on it last time. Henry P. Fletcher may sound a little too panicky and self-righteous in his protests over the use of soldier boys in the torchlight rally preceding the President's speech. But his objections to the warmed-over panacea are sound. Liberty Leaguer Shouse wins the same commendation by essentially the same stand. And Herbert Hoover...
...group, as anounced by Henry P. Fletcher, chairman of the National Committee, includes Charles J. Bullock, professor of economics. Thomas Nixon Carver, professor emeritus of political economy, and now at the University of California at Los Angeles, and Saxon, who also took his law work here and is at present in the department of economy at Yale...
...Fletcher, in announcing the organization of the research council, emphasized the fact that the professors had not been chosen because of partisan reasons but "to collect basic information on which national policies may be formulated...