Word: ropers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citizen's Duty. In Baraboo, Wis., James Lee Roper, held in the county jail on a murder charge, wrote Town Clerk Carl Hirschinger: "It may be inconvenient for me to get to the polls to vote next Tuesday; I would like an absentee ballot...
Undoubtedly the high point of the football dominated fall came with a headline on a fake CRIMSON to the effect that Princeton football coach Roper had died during the game with Harvard. This fraud issue greeted the 54,000 fans packed into the Stadium after the Tiger had convincingly beaten Harvard. The upshot of the affair was that Princeton formally, and with the wounded pride which comes with unprovoked criticism, severed athletic connections with Harvard...
...years ago, Elmo Roper conducted a survey to find out which groups were thought to be doing the most good for the nation-religious, business, governmental, congressional or labor. Business garnered 20% of the votes, second only to the religious category (34%). But when Roper ran the same survey last year, business slumped from 20% to 10%, while the religious groups rose to 40% and Government jumped from 11% to 18%. On the question of who was doing the least for the country, business, which got only 6% of the votes...
Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper: "Dan is full of guile. He is a professional glad-hander and greeter...
...comic strip about the workaday problems of a U.S. doctor. When he went to Toledo in 1946, as director of the newly established Toledo Mental Hygiene Center, he met a local resident named Allen Saunders, who does the continuity for successful comic strips himself (Mary Worth, Kerry Drake, Steve Roper). Saunders encouraged Dallis, put him in touch with Chicago's Publishers Syndicate and two artists who do the final drawings. So Rex Morgan, M.D. was born...