Word: ropers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Criticizing Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper for splitting Bureau authority between too many men, the Committee's report lashed out particularly at two top Bureau officials, Director Eugene Vidal and his assistant, Rex Martin. Excerpts...
...white trash are authentic but attractive. Old Man Roper, unregenerate patriarch, had fathered a rascally and shiftless brood. Thomas lived off in the swamp by himself, distilling shinny and drinking what he did not have to sell. Bart had not been improved by going to the War. He got a half-wit girl in trouble, killed her father and pinned the murder on her. Only decent ones in the family were Rachel, who took good care of Old Man Roper and her pining sisters, and Cully, her half-nephew, who liked engines, planned to be a mechanic...
...Cully found he wanted Rachel, his half-aunt, more than anything else. Rachel was flattered but firmlv faithful. When at last Bill came home and found Cully there, they had a fight, and Bill was killed. Rachel was going to turn Cully in to the sheriff, but Old Man Roper had better sense...
More headlines were made when Howard S. Cullman, a Roper appointee to the National Committee on Safety at Sea, got his personal pressagent to distribute a tart public letter by him on the human equation in safety at sea. Excerpt : "The general unrest in the maritime labor field is a matter of common knowledge. Conditions under which so-called able seamen and lifeboat men certificates are issued are known to make possible, if not encourage, flagrant fraud. How can we . . . hope that underpaid, overworked officers will be able to maintain real discipline...
...destroy the U. S. merchant marine. The Roosevelt Cabinet found itself seriously divided in dealing with breaches of marine discipline. When striking seamen tied up the Panama Pacific Line's S. S. California for four days in San Pedro last month (TIME, March 16), Secretary of Commerce Roper talked boldly about having the ringleaders prosecuted for mutiny. That there were no prosecutions was generally attributed to the White House influence of Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins to whom the right to strike, on land or sea, is said to have a strong sentimental appeal...