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Secretary of Commerce. Daniel Calhoun Roper, 65, was a forgotten man of the Wilson Administration until Mr. Roosevelt unexpectedly boosted him into the Cabinet. Responsible for the boost was William Gibbs McAdoo whose Madison Square Garden fight for the Presidency Mr. Roper managed. The Roper appointment infuriates the Al Smith faction of the party, for in 1928 the new Secretary of Commerce became a Hoovercrat by default when he sailed for Europe. Loose-jowled, bespectacled old "Dan" Roper is nominally from South Carolina, where he was born and where he still has two cotton plantations. But for the last...
...such an atmosphere Senator-elect William Gibbs McAdoo, President Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury, blurted: "The credit structure of the U. S. is a disgraceful failure, our entire banking system does credit to a collection of imbeciles. ... I favor a constitutional amendment that will deprive all States of the power of creating and controlling banks and that will put one federal banking system into effect which will make every bank in the nation safe...
Flying home to California from a conference with President-elect Roosevelt, William Gibbs McAdoo was forced down at New Orleans by fog. Said he: "Republicans have had the milking teat of the cow too long. We're going to change that...
...Happy Warrior" phrase with which Mr. Roosevelt twice nominated Al Smith. He handles the Governor's private mail, private business, private house in Manhattan. During the pre-convention campaign he was the "inside man," while Jim Farley was working in the spotlight. It was straight to Col. Howe the McAdoo men went at the Chicago convention when they were ready to dicker on a shift from Garner to Roosevelt...
...which will dominate the country for four years. In Congress. Democrat battles Democrat as to what is good party doctrine. The Democratic Press of William Randolph Hearst is rarely in tune with that of Adolph, Ochs, Baruch, Young, Baker & Co. hold ideas opposite from those of Dill, Long, Wheeler, McAdoo & Co.?yet all are Democrats. An Irish Catholic in Boston, a Russian Jew in Chicago and a white Protestant in Atlanta think on different tangents?yet all are Democrats...