Word: roper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt. So far as that has been disclosed to us, it is a little of Mr. John Dewey's debauched pragmatism, a little Jeffersonian democracy, a little talk of the integrated state which the suspicious might call Fascism, and a dash of Tammany Martini. The idea that Mr. Daniel Roper and Mr. Roxford G. Tugwell could agree on any fundamental policy of agricultural adjustment is only exceeded in obscurity by the question as to which of them has more influence on the administration's agricultural program...
...Federation approved a proposal of Secretary of Commerce Roper, presented by proxy, that beginning in 1935 a selected group of 150 or 200 politically ambitious college juniors spend the first three months of each year in Washington studying government first hand. A motion for sponsorship of junior NRA clubs throughout the land was tabled...
Died William Winston ("Bill") Roper, 53, Princeton's famed retired football coach, Philadelphia city councilman since 1920, branch manager of Prudential Insurance Co.; of a blood infection; in Philadelphia. Dynamic and eloquent, he adhered to no school or style of play, preached spirit and opportunism, taught his men not to fall on fumbled balls but to pick them up and run, decried football publicity when his teams had bad years, wrote football articles galore in good years...
Between Secretary of Commerce Roper and NRAdministrator Johnson have arisen differences (both of principle and personality). They took visible form last week in the Swope Plan for putting NRA more under civilian control (see p. 10). As General Johnson flew West on an inspection and explanation tour. Washington talked again about his soon resigning...
Dartmouth: r.e., Johnson (Young); r.t., Bennett (Mogel); r.g., Cameron (Cole, Hinman); c., Ray Johnson; l.g., Gribbon (Hulton, Wallemus); l.t., Otis (Long, Kollecky); l.e., Merill (Montee, Hopewood); q.b., Lefebore (Handrahan, Lowder); r.h.b., Geniawicz (April, Roper); l.h.b., Conti (Keenan, Curtis); f.b., Whitaker...