Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in Nebraska, educated as an engineer at the University of Pennsylvania, Col. Roop went to France with the engineers and became chief of the A. E. F.'s Purchasing Division. That gave him contact with General Dawes. When General Dawes grappled dramatically with the first budget in 1921, Col. Roop, as a chief assistant, grappled with him, without the dramatics. When Director Dawes quit in 1922, Assistant Roop quit. When Mr. Dawes went last spring to Santo Domingo, he recalled Budgetman Roop to his side to assist in preparing a financial system in that little republic. When General Dawes...
...Adopted (69-5) a resolution amending its secrecy for executive sessions. C. Confirmed Ferry K. Heath as assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Arch Coleman as First Assistant Postmaster General; John W. Philp as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General...
Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern Power Corp.: Schoellkopf property, largest U. S. power system, serving 500 cities and towns including Buffalo. Niagara Falls supplies most of its power. Jacob, Paul and Alfred Schoellkopf are Board Chairman, President and General Manager...
Mohawk Hudson Power Corp.: Serving Albany, Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, many another New York city. Board Chairman is Charles S. Brewer; directorate includes Statistician Roger W. Babson, General Electric's Owen D. Young, also Messrs. Machold and Carlisle...
While Mr. Ford was shipping duty-free Fordsons, General American Tank Car Corp. was employing another standard way of scaling tariff walls. This barrier, however, was not U. S. but German. Reluctant to pay the high duties collected in Germany on U. S. goods, the Tank Car company, á la General Motors, took over a German car company and organized it as a subsidiary...