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...tycoons of Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council, who called on him to present a report, had, he said, pretty well approved the principles of his program, unlike the carping critics of the Chamber...
...House, pattered up & down the Chamber's corridors trying to still the storm of abuse. Henry Ingraham Harriman, outgoing president, keynoted moderately: "The chief objection is not to the basic principles underlying many of these measures but to the extremes to which they are carried." Secretary of Commerce Roper rode a herd on the impatient Chambermen, trying to prevent a stampede...
Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper, 32-degree Mason, became a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine when its imperial potentate, the potentate of Almas Temple (Washington), one deputy imperial Potentate and one plain Shriner marched into his office, conducted a private initiation, marched out again...
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...
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...