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...Confirmed Henry Prather Fletcher, Thomas Walker Page, John Lee Coulter, Alfred Pearce Dennis, Lincoln Dixon and Edgar Brossard as U. S. Tariff Commissioners...
...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...
...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...
...Henry Prather Fletcher's service as a private in Roosevelt's Rough Riders (1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry) during the Spanish War was not mentioned at the White House last week as one of the official reasons why President Hoover appointed him chairman of the new Tariff Commission. But in many a mind there was a symbolic connection between Mr. Fletcher's military service...