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Best hint of that was given by the group which the President called in for his big final conference (see cut). Present were: Secretary Morgenthau; Joseph P.Kennedy of the Securities Exchange Commission; Charles West, the President's Congressional contact man; Rexford Guy Tugwell, though he has nominally only a little circle to ru!e over; Admiral Peoples, the Government's best purchasing agent; Director of the Budget Daniel W. Bell-and along with them Mr. Ickes and Mr. Hopkins. For works relief was not a departmental effort. When Franklin Roosevelt took personal charge, the whole Administration...
...original Public Works appropriation nor his crusty attitude toward politicians seeking political favors. Mr. Ickes still battled in private for a hefty slice of the $4,880,000,000, but last week everything seemed to be going against him. Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell took away his Soil Erosion Service as the cornerstone for a new dreamland of relief. Administrator Hopkins, who had the advantage of tripping to Florida with the President, apparently got the honor of supervising the work relief appropriation...
...things the New Deal proposed to do soon after March 4, 1933 was a vigorous clean-up of the food and drug industry. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt became an ardent advocate for a sterner and stricter law than the relic of 1906. In the Department of Agriculture Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell drafted such a stringent bill to revamp the old Federal Food & Drugs Act that manufacturers who stock the shelves of drug stores and groceries were thrown into a political panic. Hearings were held at the Capitol and self-righteous witnesses on both sides of the issue beat their...
...group know that Mr. Richberg is not to follow Raymond Moley, Lewis Douglas, General Johnson, and Rexford Tugwell into that attractive, but non-political, circle of his-beens? He does seem quite impressed with being assistant-president, so impressed even that he may soon find himself in a satin-lined ash can. Other trial balloons have soared gracefully over the capital before but treacherous currents usually carry them to Utopia, and strange as it may seem, their maker at the time. So we have given up gazing at these colored balls and their tinsel instigators, and wait for the word...
Infection Centre. To date Georgians have struck no blow against what shocked Under Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell has called their state of "bootleg slavery." Not so the lean tenant farmers of Arkansas, whose memorable bread-riot at England, Ark., four years ago (TIME, Jan. 12, 1931) made the country sit up and take notice...