Word: roop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months President Hoover and James Clawson Roop, his budget director, had been whittling and pruning at Federal expenses in an unsuccessful effort to level up outgo and income without resorting to new taxation. Director Roop, a large, round-faced man through whose tight lips pass nothing but a pipe stem, practices none of the noisy drama of the first occupant of his office (Charles Gates Dawes) or the publicized penny-pinching of the second (the late Herbert Mayhew Lord). Few U. S. officials see their President more often or more easily than Mr. Roop. Yet, utterly modest...
With the campaign pressing him from all sides President Hoover last week found it hard to keep his mind on public business. He went over some Budget figures with Director James Clawson Roop. He discussed labor conditions in the bituminous coal fields with callers. He answered a stack of belated mail. But most of his time was taken up by G. O. Partisans who wanted to tell him how good they thought his Des Moines speech was (see below) and urge him to go into their territory and make another like it. Exclaimed blind Senator Schall of Minnesota: "Mr. President...
...Roop Singh, left inside of the Indian field hockey team, made half the goals that enabled his team to beat the U. S. 24 to 1 in the title game...
Committee. President Hoover took up the Congressional challenge for specifications of economies and invited to the White House an informal House group known as the Economy Committee. To the meeting also went Secretaries Mills and Wilbur, Postmaster General Brown and Director of the Budget Roop. Most taciturn of officials, Director Roop was asked if what he was carrying in his fat brief case was the Budget. Replied he: "What's left...
Nine competitors who received honorable mention: G. Dudley Mylchreest of Hartford, Conn.; Gordon K. Burns of Maplewood, N. J.; De Wolf Schatzel of Findlay, Ohio; Frederick C. Roop of the District of Columbia; Charles H. Cloukey of Lansdowne, Pa.; Walter Wrigley of Haverhill, Mass.; Gordon K. Carter of Charlottesville, Va.; James H. Compton Jr. of Wichita, Kan.; Royal E. Peake of Detroit, Mich...