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...Jersey, Nominee Colvin was not sure to what states he might still rush in a final effort to gain votes, but he hoped to make another 100 speeches, hoped on Election Day to be on the ballot in from 26 to 32 States. In 1932 Georgia's Willie Upshaw got 81,869 votes as the Prohibition Party's nominee for President...
...Franklin Roosevelt who, in one of his inspired moments, launched the Florida Ship Canal with $5,000,000 of relief money last autumn, day after the S. S. Dixie went aground in the treacherous Florida Keys. But it was Florida's senior Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, to whom the President owed much gratitude for important New Deal service in the chairmanship of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, who got credit for selling the idea at the White House and who became its champion in the Capitol. An inland waterways enthusiast since he went to the Senate...
Died. Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, 77, longtime senior U. S. Senator from Florida; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington...
...dubious ditch. The ditch was the Gulf-Atlantic ship canal across Florida, on which President Roosevelt has already spent $5,400,000 of relief funds and which truck and fruit farmers fear may turn lower Florida into a semidesert (TIME, Feb. 17). The old gentleman was Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, 77, who has been in the Senate longer than any other member, except Idaho's Borah and South Carolina's Smith...
...contributions to the canal cause was Engineer George B. Hills himself, who also happened to be the New Deal's dispenser of patronage in Florida. Last August when the canal project seemed virtually dead, Politician Hills took 60 canal boosters to Washington. There they buttonholed Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, a Jacksonville man who up to that time had shown no great enthusiasm for a canal across his State. In a tight political spot...