Word: ropers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DANIEL C. ROPER Secretary of Commerce...
...afternoon of Jan. 10 it ordered out of the air a Lockheed 14H, at 10 a. m. next day released a general order grounding all 14Hs. But TIME regards the question as of slightly less consequence than it seems to be regarded by Northwest Airlines and Reader Roper...
Although too voceriferous and heedless of parliamentary form, America's little business men displayed in the recent Washington conference a shrewd understanding of government. In their report to the President, the tone of which, but not the sentiment, was modified by the Resolutions Committee and Secretary Roper, they showed that neither the depression, recession, nor world unrest has upset their balance and destroyed the American's most characteristic virtue: his common sense. Their suggestions, by no means perfect and complete, seem to crystallize public opinion as well as any other twenty-three remedial proposals have done...
Last week's procession of callers was headed by Secretary of Commerce Roper's Business Advisory Council, 49 strong. For the Advisory Council a Presidential audience was a triumph in itself, since in four and a half years of existence it had been generally ridiculed or ignored by the Administration. Yet its hand-picked membership includes many a New Deal friend, including Glassman John D. Biggers, Camelman S. Clay Williams, Investment Banker Sidney J. Weinberg, Merchant Lincoln Filene, Mail Order Man Robert E. Wood. Only member absent last week was Shipman Kermit Roosevelt, son of the President...
...United States and Franklin Roosevelt's struggle with "the hydra-headed economic monster of 1938," by which he meant monopoly. In Chicago, Attorney General Cummings said the same thing less picturesquely, found fault with existing anti-trust laws. Secretaries Wallace at Des Moines, Woodring at Denver and Roper at Columbus defended respectively farm control, domestic peace in view of foreign threats of war, and economic reform...