Word: roper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When other methods seem to fail, President Roosevelt likes to send his lieutenants into the land to rally the sagging morale of U. S. businessmen with strong language. First it was Secretary of Commerce Roper, then Donald Richberg who tried to soothe the business jitters by loud strumming on silver-lined harps. Last week President Roosevelt selected as his newest goodwill ambassador Securities & Exchange Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy, dispatched him to Manhattan where business gloom is currently thickest. There in an address to 1,200 bankers, brokers and business executives at a luncheon of the American Arbitration Association, Mr. Kennedy...
...General Robert E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck, come to Washington. An advocate of dollar devaluation, of the self- contained-nation theory of trade, General Wood has long been sympathetic with New Deal experiments. As businessman, he has served on NRA's Consumers' Advisory Board, on Secretary Roper's Business Council. Newshawks jumped to the conclusion that the President was grooming General Wood to succeed S. Clay Williams when NRA is renewed and reorganized...
...agreement" (i. e. preliminary code) that suited them. He got a code that specified not a minimum but an average wage, and he got it without fireworks and without making enemies except in the labor camp. In fact he made decided friends of Hugh Johnson, Donald Richberg and Daniel Roper. He also got along very well with Franklin Roosevelt-over the package of Camels on the President's desk...
When the New Deal wanted to invite the co-operation of hardboiled businessmen, its friendliest thoughts were of him. Secretary Roper made him head of his Business Advisory & Planning Council. And when the President wanted someone to step into General Johnson's shoes, Clay Williams was the answer. He came at 95? a year ($1 after April i) and began getting down to NRA headquarters at 7:30 in the morning. He still does. At breakfast, lunch and dinner, he goes out to eat with businessmen who have kicks against NRA-it is against his rules to be interrupted...
Neatly clad in a brown herringbone suit, a spare, tight-lipped little man walked into a room in the Department of Agriculture one day last month, obligingly posed for cameramen. Secretary Wallace glared at him from the other end of the chamber. So did Secretary Roper and Attorney General Cummings. This Cabinet trio, constituting the Grain Futures Commission of the U. S., had summoned him before them to begin hearings in the biggest case ever handled by that tribunal. The little man was Arthur William Cutten, whom the Government described as "the greatest speculator this country ever...