Word: fletcher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Soon after this, Fletcher of Harvard tied the world time in the 45-yard high hurdles. He gained the added distinction of being the second man who has ever tied the record twice in one day, for he had covered the distance in his trial race in the same time...
...reveal what was accomplished, Miller took the 40-yard dash, Allen the 300-yard run, Kane the 600-yard run, Watters the 1000-yard run, Tibbetts the two-mile run, and Fletcher the 45-yard hurdles. In his race Allen clipped two-fifths of a second off the 300-yard run. When the pistol cracked for the start of the 600-yard event. Haggerty was badly blocked at the start and Kane was soon trailing fourth or fifth. By the time the runners had passed the press stand with but two more laps before the finish, Kane had sneaked...
...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...
...blow by implication of a resolution introduced at the Pan-American conference, that any American republic may restrict immigration "from a non-American continent." The Latin-American republics were unanimously in favor of the resolution, and it was all ready for passage when United States Ambassador Fletcher, whose duty it has been to puncture such ambitions, rose with a reservation to the terms of agreement, which would render it worthless from the South and Central American point of view. Both of these misunderstandings have now been laid aside, possibly as unbecoming a conference. Meanwhile, although the conference has not half...