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Last week with two years of recovery behind them, 500 crack U. S. sales executives assembled in Manhattan for a two-day display of enthusiasm. Secretary of Commerce Roper soothed them. Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, British propheteer, titillated them. President Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines belabored them. President Allen Zoll of the International Association of Sales Executives told them: "I am . . . persuaded you will have a Democratic Administration for the next five years- whether you like...
...Commented Secretary of Commerce Roper himself a cotton grower: ''How would we determine the amount of cotton a nation might have from us? Would we be governed by the average exports to that nation over a five-year period, or limit the amount to actual spindle requirements...
Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham dropped in for a talk on the Ethiopian crisis before returning to his London post. Secretary Roper arrived to discuss his Commerce Department's budget. Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins appeared to row over relief policy (see col. 2). But at the close of Squire Roosevelt's second vacation week at Hyde Park House, his visitors had left only one resignation behind. That came from New York City's Works Progress Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson. "It ain't gonna be any more pro bono publico," declared the grinning General...
...Senate. In 1905 he turned up in Philadelphia to fight the Vare machine, became Secretary of an independent Republican group backed by Owen Wister, Owen J. Roberts, and William C. Bullitt, father of the present U. S. Ambassador to Russia. In 1912 with Princeton's late Bill Roper he organized the Woodrow Wilson Independent League. After the War, during which he investigated munition plants for the Department of Justice, he tried several unsuccessful business ventures, hit a low in 1926 as investigator for a religious group prosecuting concessionaires at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition who broke Sunday closing laws. The following...
Married. Grace H. Roper, fourth of U. S. Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper's seven children, 1917 Vassar graduate, British trade expert for the U. S. Tariff Commission; and Frank Bohn. 57, free-lance journalist specializing in international relations; in Washington...