Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change, won the President's approval of it. After the bill had passed the Senate, Federal Trade Commissioner Landis persuaded the President to change his mind. The President last week announced that he now was in favor of the House version. To carry out his wishes, Chairman Fletcher of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee did not name Senator Glass and Senator Wagner to places in the conference committee to compromise with the House. In wrath. Senator Glass resigned from the Senate Banking & Currency Committee. The whole Senate felt it had been injured by the President's about-face...
...milk to settle my stomach." That day he gained 2 lb. The mother lost 3 lb., the father 2 lb., the maid 3 lb., two of the children 3 lb. each, a third child 1½ lb. Only the 4-year-old son retained his weight when the Rev. Fletcher D. Parker of Hartford, Conn, fed his family for a week at a total cost of $2.24. That sum bought potatoes, pork, lamb, canned milk, butter, flour, rice, prunes and eggs. But no fruit, cereal or fresh milk. Those were the foods, that the amount, on which Hartford social workers...
...fill Moscow's Red Square, the Communists who have the best view of the proceedings are a few research professors and guards at the windows of the twin-spired Historical Museum at the north end. Behind one of those windows last week a U. S. teacher named Arthur Fletcher was taking time off from his research duties in the Institute of the Monopoly of Foreign Trade to pore over a bourgeois treasure the museum director had found for him: The Talisman in Sir Walter Scott's first draft...
...Haven't you any more like this?" asked Researcher Fletcher. The director thought he had some old letters somewhere, if he could lay his hands on them. Finally he produced an envelop out of which Mr. Fletcher eased a packet of yellow papers. They were...
...names of the new officers of the committee. Craig D. Woodruff, Jr. '35, will be chairman of the committee for the coming year, while Arthur S. Pier, Jr. '35, will be secretary, and John S. Howe '36, will be treasurer. Other members of the committee are Richard G. Fletcher, Jr. '35, Stephen H. Tyng '35, Charles S. Kelley, 3rd. '36, and Robert H. Rawson...