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...Expedited settlement of the $29,900,000 RFC loan to the depression-stricken Maryland Casualty Co., and turned the company back to private control...
...STRICKEN LAND (704 pp.)-Rexford Guy Tugwell-Doubleday...
...Stricken Land is a history of his Puerto Rican years, of the friends he made and the pounding he took from his enemies ("maliciousness unique even in my experience"), of some of his views on Caribbean policy and on colonial policy in general. A fat, rambling, earnest, occasionally angry, sometimes eloquent book, it is full of Olympian judgments, professional footnotes, diary extracts and side remarks on subjects as remote as the writings of Vincent Sheean or the progress of the Pacific naval war. But the main theme is clearly and realistically developed. It may shock the kind of complacent liberal...
F.D.R. In Retrospect. Tugwell had once been among Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisers, yet even when war came, the President left him sidetracked in Puerto Rico. One of the most interesting passages in The Stricken Land is Tugwell's attempt to balance his enthusiasm for F.D.R. with his marked reservations. Writes Tugwell: "It was not because he was a great mai, nor because he was always right, that I loved him. I perhaps more than others had always been critical of his methods and even his results. . . . Like other men, looked at critically, he was not infallible...
...Washington," moaned poverty-stricken Slobbovia's accredited representative to the U.S., "is no udder Ambassador gotta work nights in a hash-house he should kipp alive...