Word: roper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of State Cordell Hull was reported by the Baltimore Evening Sun last week considering resigning because of the President's approval of the Anglo-Italian Pact. Mr. Hull failed to resign, hotly denied he planned to. More plausible was a report that Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper had written the President to say he would resign if his Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce was transferred to the State Department as State's Under Secretary Sumner Welles had suggested. Said Secretary Steve Early for the White House: "You can make a categorical denial that Secretary Roper...
After leaving Havana the outfit, aboard the Arkansas, 28,000 ton superdreadnaught, and two destroyers, the Roper and the Tillman, will proceed northward to Annapolis where they will spend the Fourth...
Hits by Captain Ulysses Lupien and Dick Grondahl together with Bob Gannett's base on balls and a double steal accounted for the Crimson's two tallies in the fifth frame. Otherwise the Varsity failed to fathom Lefty Roper's deceptive hook. The Summary: ab r h po a e Gannett cf 4 1 0 4 0 0 Johns ss 4 0 0 2 3 0 Lupien 1b 4 0 0 10 0 0 Grondahl 3b 4 1 0 1 1 2 Saltz 1b 2 0 1 1 0 0 Hoye rf 4 0 0 3 0 0 Doyle...
...harmony with this outlook came a chirpy release from the Department of Commerce, whose head, Secretary Daniel Roper, has been bullish all through the decline. Unwilling to predict, the Department of Commerce merely asserted that the decline has pretty well come to a halt...
...Admitted that fear of what the Administration may do next is a primary factor in the current Depression. The admitter: Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper. Said he at a press conference: "We are stalemated by the fear of fear, the fear of each other. . . . Unreasoning fears, engendered by criticism of our processes of Democratic government, have undoubtedly contributed to the recent decline...