Word: ropers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caught at the centre of all this to-do over discipline at sea was Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper. When he got a look at the Weaver dossier he thought some items to be of sufficient gravity to lay before President Roosevelt and the Cabinet...
...election-year spring than the balmy air filling the White House office, was the way in which President Roosevelt had begun to stroke the fur of his conservative critics in the right direction. Last week he gave a White House luncheon to the members of Secretary of Commerce Roper's Business Advisory Council. That body of tycoons, now depleted by the resignation of numerous members disgusted with the way the President had ignored their advice for three years, also enjoyed a three-hour table discussion during which they basked in the equinoctial warmth of the Roosevelt smile...
...general public interest, the President: 1) told delegates to a great Accident Prevention Conference, called by Secretary of Commerce Roper, that the U. S. would do whatever the Conference figured the U. S. could do to prevent accidents: 2) called a North American Wild Life Conference...
Last September Philadelphia Republicans nominated S. (for Samuel) Davis Wilson, a jack-of-all-political-trades, for mayor (TIME, Sept. 30). Once an assistant to the Attorney General of Vermont, once an assistant to the U. S. Senate's chaplain, once an assistant to Princeton's Bill Roper in organizing the Woodrow Wilson Independent League in Philadelphia, Davis Wilson assisted shy WillB Hadley two years ago to become Philadelphia's treasurer on a Democratic-Fusion ticket. At the same time Davis...
Which reminds us of Secretary Roper's speech about the permanency of the "breathing spell." If New Deal legislation was so effective and desirable, and did all that is claimed for it in bringing Recovery, why is it so eminently advantageous, such a wonderfully appropriate defence of the Government, to be gloating over the cessation, now promised to be permanent, of such legislation...