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...general public interest, the President: 1) told delegates to a great Accident Prevention Conference, called by Secretary of Commerce Roper, that the U. S. would do whatever the Conference figured the U. S. could do to prevent accidents: 2) called a North American Wild Life Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Bogged in Budget | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

Last September Philadelphia Republicans nominated S. (for Samuel) Davis Wilson, a jack-of-all-political-trades, for mayor (TIME, Sept. 30). Once an assistant to the Attorney General of Vermont, once an assistant to the U. S. Senate's chaplain, once an assistant to Princeton's Bill Roper in organizing the Woodrow Wilson Independent League in Philadelphia, Davis Wilson assisted shy WillB Hadley two years ago to become Philadelphia's treasurer on a Democratic-Fusion ticket. At the same time Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: In Philadelphia | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

Which reminds us of Secretary Roper's speech about the permanency of the "breathing spell." If New Deal legislation was so effective and desirable, and did all that is claimed for it in bringing Recovery, why is it so eminently advantageous, such a wonderfully appropriate defence of the Government, to be gloating over the cessation, now promised to be permanent, of such legislation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREATHING SPELL | 11/15/1935 | See Source »

Secretary of Commerce Roper: The Department of Commerce is not doing its job. It is fair to say that it is not an easy job to do. But that is an excellent reason for putting a man there who understands and can lead Business, rather than a political expert. There were plenty of such men available on the liberal side of the Democratic Party. Gerard Swope is an outstanding example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Flop, Mess, Tangle | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...Ritter and showed up impressively. At left end the versatile Hugh MacMillan is sure to begin the contest, with his 60-yard kicks and glue-fingered pass-snagging being indispensable to the Tiger machine. Gil Lea, lanky right ender, is also a star man. John Paul Jones and Bill Roper constitute dependable reserves on the flanks, the former shining particularly in the Penn game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRIERS ENTRAIN FOR TRI-MEET AT PRINCETON | 11/9/1935 | See Source »

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