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Among the enumerated powers of the Federal Government is control of the nation's currency. This power was lodged by the Constitution in the hands of Congress. In late years it has tended to gravitate toward the Senate and its potent Banking & Currency Committee. Thus theoretically Chairman Duncan Upshaw Fletcher of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee has more power over the country's monetary policies than any other man in the U. S. Actually the aging gentleman from Florida has very little to say about it. He makes a conscientious effort to follow the devious convolutions...
...will. On "Calendar Wednesdays," when his colleagues left the clerk of the House to drone away hundreds of petty little bills to keep the folks back home happy, LaGuardia was usually pres-ent to object to the more flagrant bits of logrolling. He made Prohibitionist William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw's life a burden, advocated $150,000,000 enforcement appropriations to make the nation rebel against Prohibition. In 1919, on a Republican ticket with Socialist backing, he was elected President of New York's Board of Aldermen. He was returned to Congress in 1923. Back in New York...
Motoring to the Capitol, Florida's Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, 74, was cut and bruised when a truck collided with his automobile...
...week Washington's quasi-tropical sun, blazing down upon the Capitol, did its best to drain the vitality of all men who went about their business there. And perspiration stood upon the white fringed brow-as round and far more sunburned than the Capitol dome- of Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher. The venerable Senator might have been spared that ordeal. He might have returned to his constituents and sat with proper refreshment under the palm trees where the Atlantic laps on Florida's coral strand. His age, 74, entitled him to that surcease. Forty years as a holder...
...Dallas, Mrs. Banks Upshaw won a $100 prize for a tomato-can bird house submitted in a national contest, put the bird house in her yard, waited a year for a tenant, never...