Word: roper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baruch's associates in handling Wartime industry. Son Stettinius. only 32, graduate of the University of Virginia, a vice president of General Motors, was given the job of stimulating the tycoon members of the Industrial Advisory Board appointed by Secretary of Commerce Roper (TIME, June 26) to throw their influence effectively behind General Johnson's efforts...
...means of the Indianapolis' high powered wireless, he was even now less than a minute from London. When he steamed up Chesapeake Bay other work & other worry hurried to meet him. To talk Recovery a Cabinet party consisting of Attorney General Cummings, Secretaries Swanson, Ickes, Dern and Roper was waiting to be taken aboard the cruiser, whose isolation the President liked so well that he elected to remain aboard 36 more hours before going to the White House. While his skeleton Cabinet of landlubbers prepared to brave seasickness on the Chesapeake's choppy waters in order to keep...
...station in Paris one morning last week. Farewells were shouted, hands were wrung, a few tears shed-all the atmosphere of an official and precipitate evacuation surrounded the departure of So U. S. trade commissioners and commercial attaches and their families. Less than a week before Secretary of Commerce Roper had cabled most of the Department's European representatives to hand in their resignations, close their offices by June 30. when the fiscal year ends. If they wanted a free ride home they had to catch the George Washington on June 22. For reasons of economy. Herbert Hoover...
...separation of these officials from the service in no way reflects on their abilities," announced Secretary Roper. "It is hoped that it may be possible to find employment for many of them...
...given the counsel of the Secretaries of Commerce. Agriculture, Labor; Attorney General. Director of the Budget, Federal Trade Commissioner Chairman. These in turn began last week to draw keymen from the ranks of economists, businessmen, labor leaders to make up advisory boards. The Industrial Advisory Board appointed by Secretary Roper included: General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; Chairman Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric President Gerard Swope; Chairman Edward Nash Hurley of Chicago's Hurley Machine Co.; Louis Kirstein, vice president of Filene's, Boston department store; Austin Finch, president of Thomasville...