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...General Robert E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck, come to Washington. An advocate of dollar devaluation, of the self- contained-nation theory of trade, General Wood has long been sympathetic with New Deal experiments. As businessman, he has served on NRA's Consumers' Advisory Board, on Secretary Roper's Business Council. Newshawks jumped to the conclusion that the President was grooming General Wood to succeed S. Clay Williams when NRA is renewed and reorganized...
...agreement" (i. e. preliminary code) that suited them. He got a code that specified not a minimum but an average wage, and he got it without fireworks and without making enemies except in the labor camp. In fact he made decided friends of Hugh Johnson, Donald Richberg and Daniel Roper. He also got along very well with Franklin Roosevelt-over the package of Camels on the President's desk...
When the New Deal wanted to invite the co-operation of hardboiled businessmen, its friendliest thoughts were of him. Secretary Roper made him head of his Business Advisory & Planning Council. And when the President wanted someone to step into General Johnson's shoes, Clay Williams was the answer. He came at 95? a year ($1 after April i) and began getting down to NRA headquarters at 7:30 in the morning. He still does. At breakfast, lunch and dinner, he goes out to eat with businessmen who have kicks against NRA-it is against his rules to be interrupted...
...encouragement given to Secretary Roper's Business Advisory and Planning Council-a council in existence for a year and a half but whose members only in recent weeks have been allowed to speak confidentially into influential ears...
Backstage in a Chicago theatre, Blue-singer Sophie Tucker, famed as "the last of the red hot mamas," munched a coffee cake and announced that at the age of 47 she had "adopted a grandma," one Blanche Roper, 74-year-old widow of Plainfield, Ill. Said Granddaughter Tucker: "Jack Benny and Burns & Allen have been adopting orphans. Well, I thought I'd go them one better...