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...minute address over the radio in which he might seek to express himself on national policies; and on Armistice Day, Mr. Wilson was to receive several delegations to whom also he might make a public declaration of sentiment. Meanwhile, Mr. McAdoo, without the immediate assistance of Dan Roper, waited...
Daniel C. Roper of South Carolina was not at the capital; he was in California with his son who is ill. But Mr. Roper's work is in an advanced stage. It is he who has organized and executed the McAdoo boom. He drives the McAdoo ma- chine. Twenty years ago " Dan" Roper was a clerk in the Census Bureau. He was there for ten years. He came closer to politics in 1911 when Oscar W. Underwood, then a Representative, became Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. When Mr. Wilson became President, Dan Roper was made Assistant Postmaster General...
...when Mr. McAdoo appeared at the Capital, watchers assumed that Mr. Roper had decided it was time for the McAdoo boom to come out in the open. Mr. McAdoo had himself intimated that he might soon deliver a comprehensive statement on national issues. But the situation was complicated by Mr. McAdoo's father-in-law, Woodrow Wilson. It is generally understood that if Mr. Wilson had merely to choose who would be the next President, he would select David F. Houston, who was Secretary of Agriculture and later Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson Cabinet. At any rate...
Last minute reports from the Harvard and Princeton camps on the eve of this afternoon's football game showed that both Coach Fisher and Coach Roper have kept to their original intentions as to starting line...
Princeton is in a far more precarious position than Harvard in several positions. In the forward line some of Coach Roper's first string men are still hampered by old injuries and the substitutes at his disposal are considerably below the standards of the regulars...