Word: ropers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arguments for making CAA once more a part of the Department of Commerce are chiefly that: 1) it will get rid of one more independent bureau; 2) the Department of Commerce is different now -Uncle Danny Roper is gone and the Under Secretary of Commerce is able Edward John Noble, CAA's first chairman; 3) CAA's own internal checks and balances have resulted in continual quarrels and minor complaints vexing to the President. To make the Department of Commerce seem more attractive, the President last week announced that he expected to appoint CAA's present head...
According to a recent survey compiled for The Nation by Elmo Roper, over 63% of its readers are well-to-do, less than 37% belong to the underprivileged classes for whose sake it is edited. The average Nation reader is Jewish (46%) or Protestant (43½%), lives in the industrial East, favors Government control of some or all business, voted for La Follette in 1924, for Roosevelt...
...quotations from Walt Whitman and an album of U. S. folkways, covering U. S. unions, U. S. salesmen, the 30,000 U. S. industrial managers and the 32,000.000 U. S. farmers. In other articles, FORTUNE covers U. S. opinion in a survey, conducted by Poll Taker Elmo Roper, that measures U. S. opinion about itself...
Long has the New York Stock Exchange wailed that nobody understands it at all. Recently it hired Elmo Roper, specialist who conducts FORTUNE'S Survey, to find out for sure. He sampled 5,166 men and women, carefully scattered as to place, age, income, occupation. Last week the Exchange published the first installment of his findings: the answer to what the U. S. doesn't know about...