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...State Stimson did not wish to be away from his office so long. Dwight Whitney Morrow, ablest of U. S. conference negotiators, was dead. Elder Statesman Elihu Root was too old and fragile for the job. Charles Evans Hughes was out of reach on the Supreme Court. Henry Prather Fletcher, shrewd diplomat, refused to serve unless, it was reported, he was made chairman of the delegation. No less unwilling were Republican Senators to absent themselves from their legislative duties to go on a diplomatic mission on the eve of an important political campaign. The President's inability to round...
...President Hoover last week appointed Robert Lincoln O'Brien of Dedham, Mass, to be chairman of the Tariff Commission, vice Henry Prather Fletcher, resigned. New England's insistent demand for commission representation by a thoroughgoing protectionist brought about the appointment. A Republican now, Mr. O'Brien began life as a low-tariff Democrat. Grover Cleveland plucked him from the Boston Transcript office for a private secretary upon his second presidential nomination in 1892, kept him on at the White House until 1895. The Bryan nomination of 1896 turned Mr. O'Brien Republican. A journalist...
...Henry Prather Fletcher informed President Hoover that he would resign as chairman of the Tariff Commission on Sept. 15 after one year's service. Mr. Fletcher simply does not like...
...Henry Prather Fletcher, chairman of the U. S. Tariff Commission . . . LL.D...
Tariff Commission Chairman?Henry Prather Fletcher...