Word: roper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that his lighter-than-air pleadings were on the point of taking effect. At Washington, for several weeks, he had been advising a subcommittee of three from the Business Advisory Council of the Department of Commerce, appointed last summer at the suggestion of Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper.* Last week the sub-committee submitted a report to Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Monroe Johnson, suggesting: along with many a lesser recommendation, 1) that the U. S. build one large airship for Naval use, two for transatlantic passenger service; 2) that the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 be made...
...followed by Attorney General Cummings. No. 5 man is normally the Postmaster General. With James Aloysius Farley looking up relatives in Ireland, his position fell to ailing Secretary of the Navy Swanson, with Secretary of the Interior Ickes bringing up the rear. Agriculture's Wallace, Commerce's Roper, Labor's Perkins were no nearer the Presidency than they had ever been. When the 49th Congress fixed the order of Cabinet succession, their offices had not been created...
Messrs. Wallace, Roper and Madam Perkins, like everyone else in Washington, knew that what they were missing was an empty honor. Before sailing Roosevelt let it be well understood that, as when Wilson visited Paris and Coolidge visited Havana, there would be no acting President in his absence. With modern means of communication, distance from Washington is no Inability in a U. S. President...
Married. Lois Walters, daughter of Assistant Secretary of the Interior Theodore Augustus Walters; and Robert Coker, stepson of the daughter of Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper; in Washington...
...acre dump sprawled along the lake front. Last March contractors began blasting away at frozen ashes, tin cans, bedsprings. In three months 15 miles of paving were laid, huge buildings erected. Exhibitors, paying $4 per sq. ft. for space, moved in their products. When last fortnight Secretary of Commerce Roper drawled a dull greeting into a microphone before a tiny audience, Cleveland suddenly woke up to find its dump converted into a thing of fun and beauty...