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...station in Paris one morning last week. Farewells were shouted, hands were wrung, a few tears shed-all the atmosphere of an official and precipitate evacuation surrounded the departure of So U. S. trade commissioners and commercial attaches and their families. Less than a week before Secretary of Commerce Roper had cabled most of the Department's European representatives to hand in their resignations, close their offices by June 30. when the fiscal year ends. If they wanted a free ride home they had to catch the George Washington on June 22. For reasons of economy. Herbert Hoover...
...separation of these officials from the service in no way reflects on their abilities," announced Secretary Roper. "It is hoped that it may be possible to find employment for many of them...
...given the counsel of the Secretaries of Commerce. Agriculture, Labor; Attorney General. Director of the Budget, Federal Trade Commissioner Chairman. These in turn began last week to draw keymen from the ranks of economists, businessmen, labor leaders to make up advisory boards. The Industrial Advisory Board appointed by Secretary Roper included: General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; Chairman Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric President Gerard Swope; Chairman Edward Nash Hurley of Chicago's Hurley Machine Co.; Louis Kirstein, vice president of Filene's, Boston department store; Austin Finch, president of Thomasville...
...other three plans, submitted by the railroads, the New York savings banks and a committee headed by Secretary of Commerce Roper, all called for a Federal "Coordinator" to effect economies in railroad operations through elimination of wasteful competition, duplication of service and facilities. Though differing in detail the plans specified regional Co-ordinators under one potent chief with powers broad enough to modify contracts and overstep anti-trust laws if necessary. With the Administration behind him the Coordinator would always have the power of life & death over the railroads-control of R. F. C. loans, only present source of railroad...
...Brown '35, S. C. Porman '33, C. B. Ferguson '33. R. H. Raig '33, W. H. Harris 1G., M. F. Hearn '34. D. M. Matthews 1L., William McNett '33, J. R. Morison '35, A. S. Pier '35, C. H. Pratt '33, O. W. Robbins '34, Lanning Roper '33, T. W. Thorndike '33, and R. H. Weed...