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Last week the Los Angeles school board was in a noteworthy dither of excitement over a mural which could be seen by anyone who cared to peek under a cheesecloth curtain in the entrance hall of the Frank Wiggins Trade School. The painting is the work of Leo Katz, a Viennese artist originally brought to the U. S. by Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip to paint the Vanderlip family. Artist Katz started the mural as a PWA project, finished it on his own time, working nights, Saturdays, Sundays. Like Rivera and Orozco, he drew his inspiration from Mexico but he avoided...
...invited; Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, who was tripping in the Midwest; Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, who has no taste for clambake politics, and Secretary of the Navy Swanson who, as usual, was ailing. Harry Hopkins and Rexford Tugwell went along for the sake of goodwill, as did George Peek, Frank Walker, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Charles Michelson, top men from many a board & bureau. The list also included John D. Reilly, president of Todd Shipyards Corp., Sidney Weinberg of the Business Advisory Council, Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, Arthur Mullen, Democratic boss of Nebraska, and a fine delegation...
...ring of agricultural philosophers who sit around Son Wallace's chair included year and a half ago George Peek (as AAAdministrator). But Mr. Peek departed after a difference of doctrine with Son Wallace's chief guide, philosopher & friend, Rexford Guy Tugwell. Today Undersecretary Tugwell. chiefly occupied with his part as director of national "resettlement" under the Works Relief Act, is not the foremost member of that philosophical ring. Chester C. Davis, whom the elder Wallace originally brought to Washington to work on the McNary-Haugen plan, is now Son Wallace's chief AAA man. Those...
...Peek's place, Chester C. Davis took charge of AAA. "Chet" Davis is not a man of Mr. Peek's sort, not a man of Mr. Frank's. Economically he stood somewhat closer to Jerome Frank, but he was a middle-of-the-roader in economics and in disposition. In AAA's legal department Frank and his satellites, including Francis Shea, Lee Pressman, Victor Rotnem, flashed their rapiers, determined to slice the profits off processors and middlemen and present them to the farmers. In AAA's Information Division, Consumers' Counsel Frederick C. Howe...
...newshawk asked bluntly whether it was a fact that Mr. Wallace had sided with Frank to make Peek walk the plank, now sided with Davis to make Frank walk the plank...