Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews of the Wage-Hour law last week announced selection of his strong-arm man: the Assistant Administrator in charge of compliance. He will be bald, stoutish Major Arthur L. Fletcher, 57, since 1933 North Carolina's commissioner of Labor, a War veteran lawyer who used to work in his State's tax division with Josiah Bailey, now a Senator. Major Fletcher's chief accomplishment, besides drafting labor laws hailed as models, and condemning "gypsy" factories which exploit communities briefly and then move on has been raising flowers (150 varieties) in his garden...
...Reader Fletcher's strong Grotonian words fail to abash TIME, which simply quoted the "hideous article" of Columnist Hey wood Broun...
...MINOS L. FLETCHER III Nashville, Tenn...
...since 1934 that either college had an undefeated crew. Harvard was the favorite because: 1) it had defeated every major crew in the East this spring (Navy, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Syracuse, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and M.I.T.); 2) its boating had remained unchanged all season; 3) it had as stroke James Fletcher ("Spike") Chace, who had beaten Yale twice before, had paced only one losing race in two years and is generally recognized as one of the greatest strokes in the history of U. S. rowing. Yale had only two seasoned oarsmen in its boat, had changed its boating many times...
...fact remains that the Chicago dancers have lost their opera jobs through no fault of theirs, and Chicago audiences are deprived of the pleasure of enjoying the brilliant and successful ballets which their own ballet group have been offering for the past five years. RALPH FLETCHER SEYMOUR...