Word: roper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper has made pointed remarks about Pan American's "monopoly." And the new Maritime Commission has lately appointed Grover Loening, famed early plane designer, to advise it on such matters as subsidizing transatlantic airships or planes. Aviation folk therefore were betting last week that American Export would win Government permission for its new venture. Far less easy is likely to be the rapid establishment, without planes, personnel, experience or foreign landing rights of a long-distance airline over the world's toughest aerial route...
...philanthropic heir of Chicago's Wilson Bros, (haberdashery manufacturers), part owner (through his wife) of Washington's Woodward & Lothrop department store, great & good friend of Surgeon General Parran, of Senator Robert La Follette (for whose Civil Liberties Committee Luke Wilson Jr. is an investigator), of Secretary Roper. On July 19 Donor Wilson died, of cancer...
...Washington the U. S. Chamber of Commerce's old and new presidents, Harper Sibley and George H. Davis turned out to welcome the Japanese with Ambassador Hirosi Saito. With Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper they exchanged polite greetings. Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council gave them a luncheon. Secretary of State Cordell Hull made a speech. At the Burning Tree, Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs they played golf earnestly and remarkably well. Convinced by members of the State Department that Franklin Roosevelt minded not at all their lack of formal morning clothes, they spent a smiling half...
Heckles is heckling us." Congressional misery took a turn for the worse when the Eccles warning was seconded a few days later by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Secretary of Commerce Roper. Pointing out that the South was now planting cotton under the "dangerous delusion" that the staple would fetch 20? per Ib. by next autumn (price last week: 14?), Secretary Wallace declared: "I think very definitely that the Government does not have sufficient powers now to effectively mitigate the wide swings of the business cycle." Bumbled Secretary Roper: "We must not let our optimism cloud vision and obscure danger...
...Three weeks ago, tension in another of Secretary of Commerce Roper's subordinate de partments, the Bureau of Air Commerce, forced the resignation of Director Eugene Luther Vidal (TIME, March 8), the "exile" of two associates...