Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrilling with delight, the midget was finally escorted back to her own circus and the Senate's great side-show went on. Banker Morgan's partners stared in astonishment at their friend who up to last fortnight would only rarely suffer himself to be photographed. When Senator Fletcher, committee chairman, heard what had happened, he denounced it as a ''damned outrage," ordered the Morgan-midget films suppressed, telegraphed newspapers not to use them. When few obeyed, he barred cameramen from the committee room. The week prior Senator Glass, denouncing the committee's helter-skelter procedure...
Showman. The real showman of the Morgan investigation, however, was not a circus pressagent. nor a Senator but the kinky-haired, olive-skinned, jut-jawed lawyer from Manhattan named Ferdinand ("Pick") Pecora. Because Senator Fletcher, who at 74 looks like a wealthy Yankee visitor to his own Florida, is not another "Tom"' Walsh with the mental capacity to prosecute his own investigations, Lawyer Pecora was hired last January as the committee's counsel at $255 per month. He had spent weeks ransacking the records of the House of Morgan for material for this trial of a lifetime...
...officers and members of the Harvard faculty have been named as members of the staff of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a joint Tufts-Harvard enterprise which will open for instruction at Tufts on October...
...players have had several scrim mages with the Varsity and the Myopia Club. while the Blue has lost to Yale Freshmen 2.3, but won over Medford 7.2 Harvard's Poloists will be E. E. R. Gerry '36, Peter Jay '36, R. A. Gerry '36, while Andover will use Brown Fletcher, Rock, and Krubree...
...Jayvee baseball team will meet Cambridge Latin School at Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock today. The Harvard lineup will be: Fitzpatrick, 2b.; Kiernan, ss.; Lee, 3b.; Murphy, 1b.; Sutcliffe, lf.; Fletcher, rf.; Jacoby, cf.; Thom, c.; Lanier, or Victor, p. The Freshman baseball team will meet Andover at Andover...