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...President gave the better part of a day to interviews with George Peek, Henry Wallace, Rexford Tugwell over dissensions in the Agricultural Recovery program...
...member of the "Brain Trust" in question. Mr. Moley finally was transferred to another department and then resigned. Mr. Tugwell has been mentioned as possibly being useful in another part of the government, but there is no need of change now that the codes which he and Mr. Peek quarreled about have been transferred to Mr. Johnson's bailiwick by executive order...
...that Mr. Peek will join Mr. Johnson. Anyway it has been demonstrated that practical business folks and the "Brain Trust" do not harmonize very well and that Mr. Roosevelt will have to find some better way of keeping his official family in peaceful cooperation in the future if he expects to retain both kinds of advisers...
Many of the published versions of the Tugwell-Peek row indicated that the "Brain Trust" was on the point of revolt. The opposite has been true. The administrators and government officials who are out of sympathy with the "Brain Trust's" usurpation of power and authority were the rebels...
...lower millstone of business experience or practical cooperation with business and industry which is deemed essential to the forward progress of any economic reorganization that may be attempted. That's why the ingenious idea of removing the troublesome codes on agricultural by-products from the hands of both Mr. Peek and Mr. Tugwell is an indication of how important the President himself regards the smooth administration of the codes. The NRA itself is also adopting a somewhat more practical tone in its dealings with business. Much of this is due unquestionably to the rising tide of Congressional criticism, which means...