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...emissaries of China, who were there to make polite inquiries about the future of their country, inasmuch as the New Deal had seen fit to boost the price of silver so high as to force China off the silver standard.* Another set of callers included Vice President Garner, Senator Fletcher of Florida and Senator Brown of New Hampshire, who sought the President's help in concocting a measure to revive the Florida Ship Canal and Maine's Passamaquoddy...
...Lucian Fletcher was born in 1824 at Lynchburg, Va., where he passed a harum-scarum life which came to its first climax when he became involved in a disgraceful shooting scrape. To save his skin, his father, a well-to do planter, packed Son Lucian off over the Blue Ridge into what is now West Virginia. And to care for this handsome but troublesome son, Planter Fletcher sent along two slaves, Arch and Mary...
Arch died. Lucian, again mixed up in some shady gunplay, fled north with Mary. Arrived in Detroit, Lucian decided he would be safer across the river in Windsor, Ont. But Canadian law permitted the immigration of no slaves. So Lucian Fletcher married dusky Mary, settled down in Windsor's Negro district. In 1861 the Canadian census recorded the Fletcher household as consisting of Lucian. "one washerwoman, Mary Fletcher," and four pickaninnies: Sally. Moses. Maria, Sampson. Shortly thereafter a tax list reported Mary as "Mrs. Fletcher, widow and free-holder...
...Administration, Republican leaders began crowing at once, while partisan statisticians tried to show that if the protest voters can be counted on to go Republican next November and if the same protest appears in other States, Franklin Roosevelt "can be beaten." Said Republican National Committee Chairman Henry P. Fletcher: "These results clearly demonstrate that millions of clear-thinking Democrats will not follow one who has broken faith with his platform and his party traditions...
...reported to have been: "Mr. Bingay, our paper must have influence with Father Coughlin. Why don't you get him to open up on Roosevelt and the New Deal?" Mr. Huntley is then supposed to have led dismayed Editor Bingay into the office of Republican National Chairman Henry Fletcher, who heartily greeted him with: "Glad indeed to see you, Mr. Bingay. It is always nice to welcome folks from Wisconsin...