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...make Europe like the high rates of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act became last week the special duty of John F. Bethune, selected by Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher and his five Tariff Commissioners as their No. 1 representative abroad. For this important foreign post Mr. Bethune has had eleven years' training as secretary to the old Commission in the stuffy, antiquated rooms of Washington's Oil Land Office Building...
...Clinton Wallace Gilbert, correspondent for the New York Evening Post, last week dug up and reported the following story: When Mr. Fletcher was appointed chair man, his great & good friend Charles Ed win Mitchell, board chairman of New York's National City Bank, wrote him: "Dear Henry - I hear you have...
...Surgeon General Hugh Simon Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service; Sir Walter Morley Fletcher, secretary of the Medical Re-search Council of Great Britain; Professor Archibald Vivian Hill of the Royal Society: Dr. James Ramsay Hunt, Columbia's professor of neurology; President William Gerry Morgan of the American Medical Association: Dr. Alfred Stengel, Pennsylvania's professor of medicine: Dr. Alonzo Englebert Taylor, Leland Stanford's director of food research; Johns Hopkins' William Henry Welch, dean of U. S. medicine...
...strength of friendships made in the U. S. Foreign Service became evident last week when Tariff Commission Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher, onetime career diplomat who in 22 years rose to be Ambassador to Italy, made Leland Harrison, career diplomat who lately ended 22 years service by resigning as Minister to Uruguay, chief of the Commission's international relations division...
Last week the President's 90 days expired. He had not got his tariff lesson very well. He had been able to find and appoint only five of his six tariff commissioners. They were: Republicans Henry Prather Fletcher (chairman), Edgar Bernard Brossard, John Lee Coulter; Democrats Thomas Walker Page and Alfred Pearce Dennis. Chairman Fletcher was a longtime diplomat with no special tariff training. Commissioner Brossard, a carry-over from the old Commission, was accused of being Senator Reed Smoot's "beet sugar" representative in tariff matters...