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...things "Uncle Dan" Roper did for the New Deal, besides afford unintentional comic relief as Secretary of Commerce, was help Jim Farley organize the Young Democratic Clubs of America. Young Democrats are aged 21 to 39 and some 5,000,000 of them are now enrolled. They held conventions in 1933 (Kansas City), 1935 (Milwaukee), 1937 (Indianapolis), but not until last week, when 10,000 of them assembled at Pittsburgh for a war dance in Duquesne Garden, did they have much national significance. Then they suddenly seemed very important indeed, because their seniors in the New Deal organized and used...
...years the New York Stock Exchange has tried to put its best foot forward to the public. For six years the Exchange has wondered why its wooing has not produced a spark of reciprocal affection. Last week the Exchange hired Elmo Roper, chief researcher of FORTUNE'S famed polls of public opinion, for a special job: to find out what the middle and upper income people of the U. S. now think of the Exchange. Object: to improve its style of wooing...
...Crimson made four hits count for six runs, taking advantages of the wildness of New Hampshire's twirler At Roper. All this time, Charley Brackett was mowing down the opposing batsmen with monotonous regularty. Brackett allowed but two hits and was never in any trouble after the first inning when the Wildcats scored their only...
Among the speakers were: Professor O. M. Sprague, professor of Banking and Finance at Harvard; Dr. George H. Gallup, president of the American Institute of Public Opinion; Elmo Roper, president of the Market Survey Concern of Elmo Roper; and George B. Hotchkiss professor of Marketing at New York University...
...World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis: a 2 min. and 20 sec. fight in defense of his title; knocking out grim, 36-year-old Jack Roper, a Hollywood electrician who was considered a boxing has-been ten years ago; before 25,000 fight fans; at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles. Challenger Roper, 12-to-1 underdog, admitting it was the first break he ever got, received 10% of the nearly $100,000 gate...