Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Behind the scenes flames a speculation whether debonair, urbane, Utopian Rexford Guy Tugwell will be the ace of the braintrusters in President Roosevelt's second Administration as he was in the first. Indications are that he will. . . . Tug-well's star blazes as brightly as ever...
High in the gusty November sky, painting the top of the 165-ft. smokestack of the Wagner Brewery at Granite City, Ill., Steeplejack Bert Bareiter looked down and saw that the wind had fouled his hoist rope around a guy wire 60 ft. below. He climbed down hand over hand to untangle the rope. At this point occurred a horrifying industrial accident, followed by a notable act of industrial heroism...
...hoist rope caught around his ankle, flung him head down. Then the rushing wind and the force of his fall carried Bareiter in a hair-raising arc. Three times he was swung out in the air, three times crashed against the stack before he could seize the guy wire, lash himself to it with his belt...
After Bareiter had hung in the gusty air for something like half an hour, his helpers, John Rogers and Charles Hahne, climbed up a fire ladder and, by means of a long pole, got a pulley and rope up to him which he hitched to the guy wire. Helper Rogers then snaked up the rope, cut the tangled rope from Bareiter's ankle, lowered him from his blowy height to the roof and safety...
...bright afternoon he bundled his good friend, Under Secretary of Agriculture & Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell, into an open automobile, whisked him out of Washington and out of the shadowy silence in which he had been discreetly kept during the campaign. Their goal was Greenbelt, $10,000,000 model suburb which Dr. Tugwell is building on 8,000 rolling Maryland acres five miles north of the District of Columbia. For the handsomest braintruster, this display of Presidential favor came at a critical moment. Congress last session had refused to appropriate funds for his Resettlement Administration, forcing him to confine...