Word: fletcherizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comes out of Rivers and Harbors, many hankerers after local improvements must go unsatisfied. If it comes out of the strictly military expenses, the Senate Military Affairs Committee is likely to object. Said Senator Wadsworth, Chairman (Republican of N. Y.) : "A further reduction would be suicide"; said Senator Fletcher of Florida, ranking Democrat : "There is such a thing as going too far." 2) In the case of the Shipping Board, repeated attempts have been made to reduce its operating expenses which were not long ago as high as $50,000,000 a year. Last year it got an appropriation...
Engagement Broken. Miss Louisa Fletcher, daughter of Stoughton A. Fletcher, famed Indianapolis banker (Fletcher American National Bank), to Count Ernst Gottfried von Schmettow, Prussian...
Divorced. Laurel Louisa Fletcher Connely, authoress, onetime wife of Author Booth Tarkington, daughter of Stoughton A. Fletcher, famed Indianapolis banker, from Willard Connely, Harvard professor; in Boston. In 1911, when she was suing Tarkington for a divorce, she wrote and published a poem which began: "I wish that there were some wonderful place called the Land of Beginning Again...
George Seldes, brother of Gilbert Seldes, famed esthete, was the Rome correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. He sent dispatches to his paper which the Mussolini Government characterized as "misleading, exaggerated, alarming." He was requested, through Ambassador Fletcher, to leave the country. He demanded an order to leave addressed personally to himself. The Government granted this and a safe conduct...
Engaged. Miss Louisa Fletcher, daughter of Stoughton A. Fletcher, famed Indianapolis banker (Fletcher American National Bank), to Count Ernst Gottfried von Schmettow, Prussian...