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...married Florence Lincoln, wealthy divorced wife of William A. Rockefeller, he became, at the age of 36, president of his Institute. He launched still greater programs, teaching cotton mills to install accounting systems, to allot overhead costs, campaigning against night work for women and children. In May, 1933 Secretary Roper decorated his Institute with the annual Award of the American Trade Association Executives "for outstanding service to industry...
...front cover) President Roosevelt was last week out on the blue Pacific aboard the cruiser Houston. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau was on a ranch in Montana. Secretary of Commerce Roper was touring the Pribilof Islands. Secretary of War Dern was at the Panama Canal. Secretary of the Interior Ickes left for parts unknown. Attorney General Cummings started across the continent for Hawaii. In short, most of the New Deal was on vacation...
Prime object of the Army's Alaskan flight is to "determine whether a heavy load of bombs can be carried successfully to a distant military objective." The Navy's prime object: to teach Navy flyers "to operate in any waters, under any circumstances." With Secretary of Commerce Roper in Alaska making a survey of commercial air possibilities there, three U. S. Government departments were thus converging last week on a LT. S. territory which most strategists believe would figure prominently in any Pacific...
...prevent heavy damages being awarded in civil suits based on the Government's findings, the new amendment provides that no part of the Government hearing or statement as to cause of accidents shall be used in civil lawsuits. Simultaneously last week Secretary Roper ordered the name of the Aeronautics Branch changed to the Bureau of Air Commerce...
...ordering a census of agriculture every ten years. By that law an agricultural census would be held on Jan. 1, 1935. The Roosevelt Administration recently decided to spend, in addition to $2,700,000 already voted, $7,540,000 to take a simultaneous census of the unemployed. Secretaries Roper, Wallace, Ickes and Madam Secretary Perkins all urged the change. So did Census Director Austin, General Johnson, Relief Administrator Hopkins. They had excellent reasons...