Word: roper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government spending, WPA Administrator Hopkins answered that it was much too early to say. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who presumably stated his chief's views on budgetary matters in his speech two days later (see p. 16), also popped into the Executive wing, as did Daniel Roper, Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, Edward F. McGrady- who resigned as Assistant Secretary of Labor in September to become RCA's director of labor relations-and Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee...
...airliner roared off U. S. runways and especially since traffic lanes were established in the sky, civilian pilots have contested the right of transport companies and airports to restrict their flying. This week, however, a set of re-codified and revised Civil Air Regulations, signed by Secretary of Commerce Roper, takes effect...
...bandanas, a pounding of hoofs, a whooping of cowhands and a continuous schedule of feats of skill and vigor. Among them: an exhibition of trick-roping by 44-year-old Chester Brers who learned some of his stunts from Will Rogers and has been No. 1 U. S. trick-roper so long (20 years) that no competitors were entered against him last week; cowboys trying to throw light Mexican steers, to ride huge, humped, 1,250-lb. Brahma steers,* to rope and hold wild cows long enough to make them yield a pop bottle full of milk, to mount...
...Physiology. From M. I. T.: Horace S. Ford, treasurer of the Institute, and Carroll L. Wilson, assistant in the President's office. From the officers of Harvard, Clinton P. Biddile, professor of Investment Banking, and Associate Dean of the Business School. From the students of M. I. T. Willard Roper. From the three upper classes at Harvard, Francis Keppel '38, president of the Student Council, Jack D. Andrews '39, and Thomas V. Healey '40, captain of last year's Freshman Football team...
...Washington was devoted to conferences with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Roving Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis and Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Maritime Commission. Members of the Cabinet hurried up to the White House for their first meeting in several weeks. After the meeting, Secretaries Wallace, Ickes and Roper hurried to the Carlton Hotel for a special showing of the MARCH of TIME newsreel's current issue on the War in China. A few minutes after the President left the Executive Offices for the day, a three, sentence statement on the war was released to the Press...