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...when he became involved in a disgraceful shooting scrape. To save his skin, his father, a well-to do planter, packed Son Lucian off over the Blue Ridge into what is now West Virginia. And to care for this handsome but troublesome son, Planter Fletcher sent along two slaves, Arch and Mary...
...Arch died. Lucian, again mixed up in some shady gunplay, fled north with Mary. Arrived in Detroit, Lucian decided he would be safer across the river in Windsor, Ont. But Canadian law permitted the immigration of no slaves. So Lucian Fletcher married dusky Mary, settled down in Windsor's Negro district. In 1861 the Canadian census recorded the Fletcher household as consisting of Lucian. "one washerwoman, Mary Fletcher," and four pickaninnies: Sally. Moses. Maria, Sampson. Shortly thereafter a tax list reported Mary as "Mrs. Fletcher, widow and free-holder...
Died. Albert Dalimier, 61, oldtime French politician, member of twelve French Cabinets; after a long illness; in Paris. In 1932, while Minister of Labor, he dispatched circular letters recommending investment in the unsound Bayonne municipal pawnshop bonds offered by arch-Swindler Alexandre Stavisky. He resigned the day Stavisky's body was found, was ousted from the Radical Socialist Party during the scandal that followed...
...bitterly for the privilege of refreshing weary delegates. Not far from the door of the Waldorf Astoria's convention chamber, Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association lifted a banner to proclaim: "N. E. A.-WITH THE ONE & ONLY MAJOR HOOPLE!" Nearby, N. E. A.'s Hearstian arch-rival shrieked back in big black letters: "KING FEATURES- WITH THE ONE & ONLY GENE AHERN!" Purpose of the mammoth cocktail party whither this banner beckoned was to notify the trade that Cartoonist Gene Ahern, who originated and for 15 years drew famed Major Hoople of "Our Boarding House...
...arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune next day hastened to Mr. Lawrence's side with the cry: ''[Mr. Roosevelt] is showing again the Roosevelt who can't 'take it' - the man who when he meets with criticism is moved by the desire to crush his critics by means foul or fair." To this the loudly pro-Roosevelt New York Post responded : "No President in American history has 'taken' more and taken it with better grace than Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . . But let one breath of criticism be directed at these three pompous commentators...