Word: roper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away from home. . . . Not necessary to carry a dinner coat. With these instructions in their pockets, 13 of the Administration's more festive set flew out of Washington to Atlanta. Aboard the plane were Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor. Director for Air Regulation Vidal, Richard Roper, son of the Secretary of Commerce, Oilman James A. Moffett of the NRA and roly-poly little Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Silliman Evans, onetime Fort Worth newspaperman, who organized the junket. At At lanta, Postmaster General Farley and RFC Chairman Jesse H. Jones were picked up. Variously billed as "The Democratic...
Postal workers view TIME'S try at painting the Roper lily (Letters, Aug. 28) as scarcely TiME-worthy. In no wise existing on "public money on which the taxpayer gets no tangible returns," the postal service renders as tangible and indispensable a service as that given by the telephone, telegraph, railway and express companies. And ''public money" is public money whether paid indirectly through the Postoffice Department or directly to a utility...
Exuberant young Democrats from 30 states met last week in Kansas City under the auspices of the Democratic National Committee. After listening to speeches by Postmaster General Farley, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Missouri's Governor Park and Indiana's Governor McNutt, they revolted against prepared addresses by their elders, limited them to ten minutes each. Likewise they threw off the national committee's yoke to pick their own officers for the Young Democratic Clubs of America...
Last week Secretary of Commerce Roper undertook to explain the "apparent inconsistency" between the Government's policy of retrenchment and the NRA's policy of expansion. His prime points: 1) Business and industry began to deflate expenses immediately after the 1929 crash whereas for four years the Government added 10,000 workers to its payrolls and attempted to maintain salaries at boom levels in a further attempt to break the depression. 2) This Federal policy produced a series of Treasury deficits which the country voted to end in the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 3) The Government...
Married. James H. Roper, engineer, eldest son of Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper; and Elizabeth May Armstrong, high school librarian of San Leandro, Calif.; in San Francisco. Few weeks ago police were sent to investigate Engineer Roper's presence in Libra rian Armstrong's home by Mrs. Evelyn Aylesworth, head of the Physics Department at Mills (Oakland Women's College). Mrs. Aylesworth said that she, not Librarian Armstrong, was Engineer Roper's No. 1 fiancee...