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Plans for the Leverett House dinner and dance to be held on Friday, March 24, are rapidly approaching maturity, according to a statement issued by Lanning Roper '33, chairman of the dance committee. Ruby Newman in person with his ten-piece orchestra has been engaged for the dancing, which is to continue from 9 o'clock until 2 o'clock. If enough of the guests wish it, the dancing will continue through 3 o'clock...
...following is a list of the Dance Committee: S. C. Dorman '33, J. N. Eisman '33, C. B. Ferguson '33, W. H. Harris 1G., William McNett '33, W. H. Lewis '35, and Roper...
...elect juggled about on paper to see how they might fit into the new administration. William Hartman Woodin, the new Secretary of the Treasury, arrived from Manhattan to discuss the banking situation in the light of the Maryland moratorium (see p. 18). And on his heels entered Daniel Calhoun Roper, new Secretary of Commerce, with fresh plans for wringing larger savings out of government reorganization. Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt attended a farewell party at nearby Staatsburg where old friends were told that Hyde Park would serve as the summer White House because "it's a whole lot cheaper to come...
Secretary of Commerce. Daniel Calhoun Roper, 65, was a forgotten man of the Wilson Administration until Mr. Roosevelt unexpectedly boosted him into the Cabinet. Responsible for the boost was William Gibbs McAdoo whose Madison Square Garden fight for the Presidency Mr. Roper managed. The Roper appointment infuriates the Al Smith faction of the party, for in 1928 the new Secretary of Commerce became a Hoovercrat by default when he sailed for Europe. Loose-jowled, bespectacled old "Dan" Roper is nominally from South Carolina, where he was born and where he still has two cotton plantations. But for the last...
President Roosevelt expects to shrink the Department of Commerce, so greatly expanded by Herbert Hoover. Secretary Roper, no eminent commercialist, is prepared for major amputations...