Word: ropers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elect juggled about on paper to see how they might fit into the new administration. William Hartman Woodin, the new Secretary of the Treasury, arrived from Manhattan to discuss the banking situation in the light of the Maryland moratorium (see p. 18). And on his heels entered Daniel Calhoun Roper, new Secretary of Commerce, with fresh plans for wringing larger savings out of government reorganization. Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt attended a farewell party at nearby Staatsburg where old friends were told that Hyde Park would serve as the summer White House because "it's a whole lot cheaper to come...
Secretary of Commerce. Daniel Calhoun Roper, 65, was a forgotten man of the Wilson Administration until Mr. Roosevelt unexpectedly boosted him into the Cabinet. Responsible for the boost was William Gibbs McAdoo whose Madison Square Garden fight for the Presidency Mr. Roper managed. The Roper appointment infuriates the Al Smith faction of the party, for in 1928 the new Secretary of Commerce became a Hoovercrat by default when he sailed for Europe. Loose-jowled, bespectacled old "Dan" Roper is nominally from South Carolina, where he was born and where he still has two cotton plantations. But for the last...
Tentative plans for a Leverett House dinner on Tuesday, December 20 were released by Lanning Roper '33 of the Leverett House Committee yesterday. Although it is undecided as to what the entertainment will be, some program after the dinner is being planned...
...Heath '34 from the Junior class. The Sophomores elected were: R. G. Fletcher '35, and W. H. Lewis '35. These eight men will meet with the present appointed House Committee and will constitute a majority. The rest of the Undergraduate Committee is composed of Lanning Roper '33, Chairman, J. A. McAleer '33, Andrew Marshall '34, R. H. Weed '34, A. S. Pier, Jr. '35, and W. D. Cotton...
...board this year are as follows: K. C. Davis, R. H. Demuth, A. L. Dougan, M. B. Finkelstein, E. E. Ford, Jr., L. T. Furth, H. L. Hart, C. T. Horsky, E. H. Kent, R. H. Lindman, C. H. Livengood, Jr., R. P. Loftus, David Riesman, Jr., W. C. Roper, Jr., B. R. Shute. The third-year men elected are B. D. Brooker, H. B. Gross, and Albert Soladar...