Word: ropers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encouragement given to Secretary Roper's Business Advisory and Planning Council-a council in existence for a year and a half but whose members only in recent weeks have been allowed to speak confidentially into influential ears...
Backstage in a Chicago theatre, Blue-singer Sophie Tucker, famed as "the last of the red hot mamas," munched a coffee cake and announced that at the age of 47 she had "adopted a grandma," one Blanche Roper, 74-year-old widow of Plainfield, Ill. Said Granddaughter Tucker: "Jack Benny and Burns & Allen have been adopting orphans. Well, I thought I'd go them one better...
...Universal's Buck Jones. Since entering cinema, he has made 74 serials and features. A onetime rodeo performer, he lives on his San Fernando Valley ranch with his wife, whom he married on horseback, when they were both performing in a Wild West Show. Onetime cavalryman, aviator, trick-roper and auto-mechanic, Buck Jones made his cinema debut as an extra in 1917, became a major Fox star, at $2,500 a week. He now owns four horses, four dogs, three expensive cars, supports an So-piece band to represent his "Buck Jones Rangers' a national organization...
Harry Hopkins, who has to administer Relief; Henry Morgenthau Jr., who has to pay for it; Messrs. Richberg, Roper, Ickes, Wallace and Franklin Roosevelt, who hope that it will stimulate recovery, are all interested in the dole. So, too, last week was the Census Bureau. Its Dr. Samuel A. Stouffer, on leave from the University of Wisconsin, announced the results of a three-year investigation in Milwaukee into the effect of the dole upon the birthrate. He counted the newborn children of 11,400 families, half on relief, half selfsupporting, but both in similar walks of life. Since some families...
...such congresses favor: a balanced budget, the gold standard, a modified NRA, an end to government competition with business. But genuine economic articulation came not from the practicing-economists who were delegates to the Congress but from the practicing politicians of the New Deal?Daniel Roper, Raymond Moley; Donald Richberg...