Word: ropers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court plan was in a far different setting from the flourish of trumpets which closed Part I. His supporters rushed to the White House to group themselves around him in a final tableau. Then he disappeared into the wings, proceeded to his dressing room for intermission: Secretaries Hull and Roper, Attorney General Cummings, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black drove with him through slush-filled Washington streets to the Union Station. He boarded his private car accompanied by his usual batch of secretarial assistants, his daughter-in-law Betsey Roosevelt and an unannounced addition, William C. Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France...
...good record." Good though the record may be, its establishment was not accepted by Washington observers as Director Weaver's chief reason for quitting. Strongest possibility was that Joe Weaver, onetime NRA shipping administrator, was not too happy in the Department of Commerce.* Year ago when Secretary Roper's "lethargy" was scored by the National Committee on Safety at Sea, someone began releasing confidential data about the situation. Over Director Weaver's protests, Secretary Roper fired the Bureau's second and third men-Chief Investigator Frederick L. Adams and Commander H. McCoy Jones...
Said Senator Copeland: "I am sorry to see him go. ... Of course I scolded him . . . but he wasn't to blame. . . . It was the system that was wrong, not Mr. Vidal. He was director on paper. Actually, he had no authority. Secretary of Commerce Roper had a setup in which three men had collateral authority. One was Mr. Vidal. The other two were Rex Martin and Carroll Cone, assistant directors...
Taking this to heart, Secretary Roper began a complete reorganization of the Bureau. Assistant Directors Cone and Martin lost their titles, were "sent to Siberia"-Martin to "study airline operation" in South America, Cone in Europe. Made assistant director was famed Major Rudolph William ("Shorty") Schroeder, one of the few Bureau men whom everybody admires. Made director with sole authority was Dr. Fred Dow Fagg Jr., 40, head of the Air Law Institute of Northwestern University. A Wartime flyer, Fred Fagg has been the Bureau's legal expert for four years, has been on the payroll since last summer...
From President George Houk Mead of Mead Corp. (paper), who learned about politics as chairman of Secretary of Commerce Roper's Business Advisory Council came three "conclusions" which would have sounded like heresy or horseplay at NAM's meeting last year: "First-that politics is a highly-developed and honorable profession. . . . Second-that it is the obligation of industrial and business executives, as part of their daily work, to give time and consideration to the government of community, state and nation. . . . Third -that Government representatives . . . are giving untiring, conscientious effort to most difficult tasks...