Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have shown this letter to John W. Cutler and other members of the 1908 championship team who are all in accord with these views...
Valpey accomplished no miracles. So now, a little more than a year later, Fish erupts into print. This morning's Boston "Globe" carries a front-page story and the full text of a letter from the former Congressman--a letter which also went to Bill Bingham, the Alumni Bulletin, the New York Times, and the CRIMSON. The letter's central point is contained in these sentences...
There seem to be quite a few points where the Fish letter is wrong. First of all, Fish seems annoyed by the "dismal failure of the 1949 season." It might be germane to point out that the "great" Harvard teams that he played on began their seasons with the following four opponents: 1907: Bowdoin, Maine, Bates, Williams; 1908: Bowdoin, Maine, Bates, Williams; 1909: Bates, Bowdoin, Williams, Maine. The fact that Fish's teams were playing patsies for a month day possibly have had something to do with the fine finishes they staged, or with the reputation of Percy Haughton...
...expected that a former Harvard captain and all-American as prominent in the public eye as Hamilton Fish would have something to say about this season. It is hard to understand, however, why he chose an open letter to four publications to castigate to coach who has done his best. It is hard to understand how Fish could have changed from the helping alumnus he seemed in 1948 to the jealous guardian of past Harvard glory that he now claims...
...editors of Wisconsin daily and weekly newspapers, McCarthy sent a blistering letter charging Evjue's paper with continually parroting the Daily Worker and asking whether it was not "the Red Mouthpiece for the Communist Party in Wisconsin." He cited Evjue's own 1941 accusation that Parker was a Communist and added: "There is nothing in his writing [to] indicate he has in any way changed his attitude...