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...doles before he succeeded in making the states take over direct relief. By June 30 he will have spent some $1,495,000,000 additional on Works Progress Administration, the fancy name for work relief. Also, a new relief man had appeared in the person of Rexford Tugwell who got $246,390,000 for rural resettlement...
Because the high ceilings permitted him to display his Oriental tapestries and African trophies to best advantage, 20 years ago bearded, rotund Representative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts took a lifetime lease on an apartment in Washington's Arlington Hotel. Six months ago, when New Dealer Rexford Guy Tugwell's Resettlement Administration rented the building, Representative Tinkham stood on his legal rights, refused to budge...
...answer Red Browder next evening, Republican Fish was moved to declare: "I am inclined to the belief that the open attacks of Communists against our industrial, social and political institutions are far less dangerous than the subtle and insidious attacks of New Deal spokesmen, such as Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell...
...between the Rock of Taxes and the Whirlpool of Deficit, he realized last week that it would require serious effort on his part to find a safe political passage. Secretary Morgenthau conferred with him nearly every day. Budget Director Bell, Secretaries Wallace and Ickes, Assistant WPAdministrator Williams, RFChairman Jones, Rexford G. Tugwell, Chester Davis, Housing Administrator McDonald came & went. It would be safer to steer a little toward the Rock of Taxes, for the Congressional current would suck him back anyway to the Whirlpool. Hence he confirmed the fact that he would ask about half a billion in taxes...
...Rexford Tugwell or Randolph Hearst...