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...Washington the U. S. Chamber of Commerce's old and new presidents, Harper Sibley and George H. Davis turned out to welcome the Japanese with Ambassador Hirosi Saito. With Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper they exchanged polite greetings. Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council gave them a luncheon. Secretary of State Cordell Hull made a speech. At the Burning Tree, Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs they played golf earnestly and remarkably well. Convinced by members of the State Department that Franklin Roosevelt minded not at all their lack of formal morning clothes, they spent a smiling half...
Heckles is heckling us." Congressional misery took a turn for the worse when the Eccles warning was seconded a few days later by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Secretary of Commerce Roper. Pointing out that the South was now planting cotton under the "dangerous delusion" that the staple would fetch 20? per Ib. by next autumn (price last week: 14?), Secretary Wallace declared: "I think very definitely that the Government does not have sufficient powers now to effectively mitigate the wide swings of the business cycle." Bumbled Secretary Roper: "We must not let our optimism cloud vision and obscure danger...
...Court plan was in a far different setting from the flourish of trumpets which closed Part I. His supporters rushed to the White House to group themselves around him in a final tableau. Then he disappeared into the wings, proceeded to his dressing room for intermission: Secretaries Hull and Roper, Attorney General Cummings, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black drove with him through slush-filled Washington streets to the Union Station. He boarded his private car accompanied by his usual batch of secretarial assistants, his daughter-in-law Betsey Roosevelt and an unannounced addition, William C. Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France...
...good record." Good though the record may be, its establishment was not accepted by Washington observers as Director Weaver's chief reason for quitting. Strongest possibility was that Joe Weaver, onetime NRA shipping administrator, was not too happy in the Department of Commerce.* Year ago when Secretary Roper's "lethargy" was scored by the National Committee on Safety at Sea, someone began releasing confidential data about the situation. Over Director Weaver's protests, Secretary Roper fired the Bureau's second and third men-Chief Investigator Frederick L. Adams and Commander H. McCoy Jones...
...Three weeks ago, tension in another of Secretary of Commerce Roper's subordinate de partments, the Bureau of Air Commerce, forced the resignation of Director Eugene Luther Vidal (TIME, March 8), the "exile" of two associates...