Word: fletcherizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another real veteran is drummer Kaiser Marshall, who started drumming for Fletcher Henderson over twenty years ago. He was with Fletcher for over eight years, during which time the band reached its zenith and became the greatest jazz mer. He doesn't drum for the listeners, he drums for the band. He has a fine, crisp beat, and never get in the way of the soloists...
...Clapper thought the U.S. East Coast would be token-bombed, that the Nazis would loose poison gas on England. Columnist George Fielding Eliot wrote that Japs would be "swiftly and decisively beaten." Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing predicted Hitler would either retire or be ousted by the German Army. Author Fletcher Pratt said only a miracle could save Russia "from utter defeat." Foreign Correspondent John T. Whitaker limb-climbed with a flat forecast that the Nazis would invade Spain and Portugal in the spring. Ex-CBS Berlin Newscaster Harry Flannery agreed with him, added the Azores and Canary Islands...
...minutes of play constituted the equivalent of a day's fighting; during the '20s, Geddes and his friends played it every Wednesday from eight in the evening until midnight. Some wars lasted two or three years. . . . The game occasionally took a tragic turn. Rear Admiral William B. Fletcher, long a regular player, lost eight capital ships one night and was so humiliated that he never returned. Another friend, after being court-martialed one evening for losing an entire army, lay on a sofa and cried...
Pratt & the Graf Spee. Military Expert Fletcher Pratt of New York City invented in 1929 and has since developed a Naval War Game which actually approximates sea war. One night in 1939 the players looked at each other and whistled. Three light ships had just sunk the German pocket battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee, a supposedly impossible feat. But their calculations showed it could be done-and they were not so much surprised as vindicated when the Graf Spee actually got her comeuppance in just that way six months later off Brazil...
...G.O.P. leaders had committed themselves publicly, but in the battle for votes Schroeder had the behind-scenes support of Herbert Hoover, Ohio's Senator Robert Taft, silver-haired Henry P. Fletcher, who held the job himself back in 1934-36, and many a "practical" politician. Leading the fight against Schroeder was Wendell Willkie...