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...State Department forwarded a resume of diplomatic issues, present and potential, between the U. S. and countries to the south. Also furnished was an official adviser and personal representative of President Coolidge, in the person of Henry Prather Fletcher, the U. S. Ambassador to Italy. Mr. Fletcher, a longheaded gentleman of 55 years, has been in the diplomatic service since 1902. He was five years Minister to Chile (1909-1914). From 1916 to 1920 he was Ambassador to Mexico. He was Under-Secretary of State during the first year of the Harding administration, then went to Belgium, then to Italy...
...races-chariot races, horse races, automobile races, airplane races. But last week Romans saw their first whippet (dog) races. Six of the fleetest whippets raced were owned by the Contessa Dentice Di Frasso, once Miss Dorothy Taylor of Manhattan. Present were the U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Henry Prather Fletcher...
Three of the four Fletcher Brothers own two gold mines in the lovely, salubrious Pis-Pis region of Nicaragua. The fourth Fletcher Brother, who has no interest in the mines, is the U. S. Ambassador to Italy, suave Henry Prather Fletcher. Last week President James Gilmore Fletcher of the mining corporations and his co-owning brothers, G. Fred & D. Watson Fletcher, all of Manhattan, were irate. President Fletcher dashed to Washington to inform Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg that much was amiss in the valley of the purling Pis-Pis River. The Fletcher mines had been seized, he declared...
...Three resolutions condemning various phases of immigration restriction were adopted by the Conference in plenary session, last week. After each was read out, a U. S. Delegate, Henry Prather Fletcher, able U. S. Ambassador to Italy, rose and announced that the U. S. reserves to itself the right of determining its own "purely domestic" immigration policy without reference to any international authority whatever...
...order to jam through the Canal protecting clause, U. S. Delegate Henry Prather Fletcher (also U. S. Ambassador to Italy) was obliged to declare roundly...