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...University of the South, a Doctor of Civil Law. Washington & Jefferson gave Secretary of the Interior Ickes an LL. D., as did Lake Forest. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace received an LL. D. from Drake. National University (Washington, D. C.) bestowed an LL. D. on Secretary of Commerce Roper and Bryant & Stratton (Baltimore, Md.) acclaimed him a Master of Business Administration. Secretary of Labor Perkins ended the list with LL. D.'s from Goucher and Wisconsin. Unhonored: State's Hull, Justice's Cummings, Navy's Swanson...
...scoring column out of season (last February) with an LL. D. from Rollins, got another last fortnight from Oglethorpe. Secretary Ickes got his third LL. D. this week from Berea. University of Arizona made Secretary of Agriculture Wallace a Doctor of Science last week and Rollins made Secretary Roper a Doctor of Humane Letters. Alabama College (Montevallo) gave Secretary Swanson from remaining the Cabinet's only non-doctor was new Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau...
...last things President Roosevelt did before entraining for Florida and fun was to hold a White House Study conference with Postmaster General Farley, Attorney General Cummings and Secretary of Commerce Roper. By the time the President was well out to sea on the Nourmahal, announcement was made in Washington of one more change in the Administration's airmail policy...
...Democratic National Committee. "Together with Farley and Flynn, he is a tacit reminder that Roosevelt's strongest single element of strength is the Catholic Church. . . ." Observer casts his vote for "slickest politician in the Cabinet and probably in the entire country, Roosevelt alone excepted," to Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Commerce...
...tariff as much as 50%. Republicans are already stirring up a battle against it. The President felt he must get it on the books quickly to start tariff bargaining this summer and reinforce his other recovery measures by a trade revival. Last week Secretaries Hull, Wallace and Roper all appeared before Congressional committees to plead for its prompt passage...