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...FLETCHER...
...this book Dr. Noyes joins that company of specialists and adds the account of Ben Jonson's fate during the Restoration and the XVIIIth century to the tales already told of how Shakespeare was 'improved' or adapted to the tastes and prejudices of our ancestors, and how Beaumont and Fletcher fared...
...Senator Fletcher bundled his 76 years into a taxicab, went to the White House to see Franklin Roosevelt. Whether Senator Fletcher's call or Mr. Hills's political pressure elsewhere turned the trick, the fact remained that, day after the Dixie grounded on French Reef, Franklin Roosevelt opened the canal game with an ante...
...Roosevelt had asked for the canal and four other non-military enterprises. The committee explained somewhat lamely that its omission of this item was not to be construed as an outright abandonment of the projects concerned, that the money might be included in a Deficiency Bill "before adjournment." Senator Fletcher, now a defender of the canal whether he likes it or not, roared that the committee had "played into the hands of the Republicans," said he would make every effort to have the $29,000,000 promptly restored by amendment...
Meanwhile the Senate Commerce Committee started to consider investigating the whole project. Senator Fletcher was doing his best to preserve the canal's good name while Senator Vandenberg of Michigan was producing considerable damaging evidence against...