Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the second time this year the Committee has had recourse to polls to decide about the dance. In the previous poll the freshmen voted overwhelmingly for higher admissions and better orchestras for their dances. Fletcher Henderson's orchestra was chosen at that time, but the committee was unable to obtain them...
...Fletcher Henderson's new orchestra, a high-ranking sweet-hot-swing band, will feature the Annual Adams House Winter Dance, which will be held on Friday, February 14, from 9:30 till 2:30 o'clock...
...Chairman Fletcher of the Republican National Committee: "I cannot free myself of the impression that the attitude you have taken is affected and perhaps involuntarily controlled by the political party in power which regulates the issuance of your licenses. I believe your policy . . . will leave in the minds of the American public the distinct impression that you are either exercising an unwarranted degree of censorship or that you fear punitive action by the Federal Communications Commission...
...seem in the least, in other matters, to disagree with Mr. Munroe. But the return of Hour Examinations, and Quizzes, and Attendance, sends a cold shiver down my spine, and completely cclipses, for me, any value there may have been in the rest of your article. R. S. Fletcher...
...Fletcher Henderson was an overwhelming choice over Don Gaban as the orchestra desired at the next dance. 356 votes were cast for Henderson at a price of $2.00 a couple and $1.50 stag, while 174 persons preterred Gaban at $1.25 a couple and $1.00 stag. Thirteen expressed no choice...