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...largest small businessmen invited by Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper to a Conference of Little Business in Washington last February was DeWitt McKinley Emery-6 ft. 6 in. When that conference became a circus it made red-headed Mr. Emery very angry. Two months previously he had conceived on his own idea of a national conference of small businessmen, had sent out from his Akron, Ohio stationery plant a form letter to other little men which began: "The sheriff is about to get my business. How's yours?" He attended the Washington shenanigans, was disgusted, decided...
...June Harvard students of the Naval R. O. T. C. Unit embarked on the battleship "Arkansas" and the destroyer "Roper" at the Boston Navy Yard...
...Arkansas" and "Roper" has been detailed by the Navy Department to make a three weeks training cruise for the Naval R. O. T. C. units at Harvard, Yale, Northwestern and Georgia Tech...
From Annapolis the "Arkansas" left of New York for a three day visit, having taken aboard all Harvard and Yale students from the "Roper" and "Tillman." The "Arkansas" then proceeded to Boston where the students disembarked on July...
...high, General Motors recalled 24,000 men to its Flint plants, and department-store sales all over the nation were off only 3% from the same week a year ago as compared to 14% fortnight ago. Summarizing such statistics in his weekly press conference, Secretary of Commerce Roper, more sanguine than most industrialists, concluded that they marked a steady continuance of the "processes of recovery...