Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CUNNING MULATTO AND OTHER CASES or ELLIS PARKER, AMERICAN DETECTIVE-Fletcher Pratt-Smith & Haas...
...between France and Russia that will soon be a three-power pact with U. S. the third party. Instead of playing down Russia and ignoring France it would be smarter for TIME to be first on the bandwagon and start the cheering for America's potential allies. BARBARA FLETCHER...
...importance of the Constitution has grown continually." Into his office trooped Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Governor Eccles of the Federal Reserve, Chairman Crowley of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., President Hecht of American Bankers Association, Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor, R. F. C. Chairman Jones, Senators Fletcher and Glass, Representative Steagall to witness the signing of the Banking...
...public is of the opinion that a candidate may be defeated, then, in the lexicon of politics, it becomes a possibility that he can be beaten. Last fortnight the silver-haired ex-diplomat, Henry Prather Fletcher, who has been far from a diplomatic success as Republican National Chairman, marched to the microphone, as he has not done in months, and cried over the air: "It has been wisecracked that you cannot eat the Constitution. You can't, nor can you eat the Bible, or the Golden Rule, or the Ten Commandments, or the deed to your property, or your...
...House first passed the Banking Bill sent it by Governor Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board. Lest Senator Glass, known to be opposed to the Eccles bill, should change it, his Senate subcommittee on Banking & Currency was packed with friends of the New Deal and Chairman Fletcher was set as a watch dog over him. Senator Glass refused to be hurried. He insisted on hearing everyone. Unable to outvote his fellow committeemen, he spent two months educating them in the problems of banking. Bit by bit he won them around by logic, bit by bit got Governor Eccles...