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Said Senator Copeland: "I am sorry to see him go. ... Of course I scolded him . . . but he wasn't to blame. . . . It was the system that was wrong, not Mr. Vidal. He was director on paper. Actually, he had no authority. Secretary of Commerce Roper had a setup in which three men had collateral authority. One was Mr. Vidal. The other two were Rex Martin and Carroll Cone, assistant directors...
Taking this to heart, Secretary Roper began a complete reorganization of the Bureau. Assistant Directors Cone and Martin lost their titles, were "sent to Siberia"-Martin to "study airline operation" in South America, Cone in Europe. Made assistant director was famed Major Rudolph William ("Shorty") Schroeder, one of the few Bureau men whom everybody admires. Made director with sole authority was Dr. Fred Dow Fagg Jr., 40, head of the Air Law Institute of Northwestern University. A Wartime flyer, Fred Fagg has been the Bureau's legal expert for four years, has been on the payroll since last summer...
From President George Houk Mead of Mead Corp. (paper), who learned about politics as chairman of Secretary of Commerce Roper's Business Advisory Council came three "conclusions" which would have sounded like heresy or horseplay at NAM's meeting last year: "First-that politics is a highly-developed and honorable profession. . . . Second-that it is the obligation of industrial and business executives, as part of their daily work, to give time and consideration to the government of community, state and nation. . . . Third -that Government representatives . . . are giving untiring, conscientious effort to most difficult tasks...
...believe that his lighter-than-air pleadings were on the point of taking effect. At Washington, for several weeks, he had been advising a subcommittee of three from the Business Advisory Council of the Department of Commerce, appointed last summer at the suggestion of Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper.* Last week the sub-committee submitted a report to Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Monroe Johnson, suggesting: along with many a lesser recommendation, 1) that the U. S. build one large airship for Naval use, two for transatlantic passenger service; 2) that the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 be made...
Messrs. Wallace, Roper and Madam Perkins, like everyone else in Washington, knew that what they were missing was an empty honor. Before sailing Roosevelt let it be well understood that, as when Wilson visited Paris and Coolidge visited Havana, there would be no acting President in his absence. With modern means of communication, distance from Washington is no Inability in a U. S. President...