 In 1933 , Franklin D. Roosevelt ’ s Secretary of Commerce , Daniel Roper , appointed Flanders to the Business Advisory Council , which was created to provide input to the administration on matters affecting business . The Council then made Flanders chairman of the Committee on Unemployment . This committee recommended addressing the problem both geographically and by industry . Flanders reported , however , that when the committee made its recommendations President Roosevelt was preoccupied with augmenting the Supreme Court and ultimately chose the undistributed profits tax instead — a choice that Flanders felt discouraged capital investment . 
