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Although too voceriferous and heedless of parliamentary form, America's little business men displayed in the recent Washington conference a shrewd understanding of government. In their report to the President, the tone of which, but not the sentiment, was modified by the Resolutions Committee and Secretary Roper, they showed that neither the depression, recession, nor world unrest has upset their balance and destroyed the American's most characteristic virtue: his common sense. Their suggestions, by no means perfect and complete, seem to crystallize public opinion as well as any other twenty-three remedial proposals have done...
Last week's procession of callers was headed by Secretary of Commerce Roper's Business Advisory Council, 49 strong. For the Advisory Council a Presidential audience was a triumph in itself, since in four and a half years of existence it had been generally ridiculed or ignored by the Administration. Yet its hand-picked membership includes many a New Deal friend, including Glassman John D. Biggers, Camelman S. Clay Williams, Investment Banker Sidney J. Weinberg, Merchant Lincoln Filene, Mail Order Man Robert E. Wood. Only member absent last week was Shipman Kermit Roosevelt, son of the President...
...United States and Franklin Roosevelt's struggle with "the hydra-headed economic monster of 1938," by which he meant monopoly. In Chicago, Attorney General Cummings said the same thing less picturesquely, found fault with existing anti-trust laws. Secretaries Wallace at Des Moines, Woodring at Denver and Roper at Columbus defended respectively farm control, domestic peace in view of foreign threats of war, and economic reform...
...Government spending, WPA Administrator Hopkins answered that it was much too early to say. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who presumably stated his chief's views on budgetary matters in his speech two days later (see p. 16), also popped into the Executive wing, as did Daniel Roper, Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, Edward F. McGrady- who resigned as Assistant Secretary of Labor in September to become RCA's director of labor relations-and Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee...
...airliner roared off U. S. runways and especially since traffic lanes were established in the sky, civilian pilots have contested the right of transport companies and airports to restrict their flying. This week, however, a set of re-codified and revised Civil Air Regulations, signed by Secretary of Commerce Roper, takes effect...