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...there. For the past week such Ellington notables as Ben Webster and Lawrence. Brown have been sitting in with the boys regularly--high tribute in itself. There are interesting soloists on every instrument, but at least when I was there Frankie led all the rest. Last Monday, after lending Rex Steward his trumpet for a feverish ten minutes, Frankie, who always takes the last solo on each number, improvised chorus after chorus with the full, rich tone he induces from his open horn. And Rex himself clambered halfway onto the bandstand to hear him better. As George Frazier...
...White House went an angry cable from leaders of Puerto Rico's Coalition Party, begging President Roosevelt to take Rex Tugwell away. In Washington, slick-haired, solemn Bolivar Pagan, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, passionately denounced Rex Tugwell as "an American quisling." Said Commissioner Pagan: "He is doing everything so that loyal American citizens in Puerto Rico become sore and disunited. . . . Governor Tugwell is doing a good job for the Axis powers...
...like many another sincere New Dealer, Rex Tugwell is no impartial statesman. He loves the people to beat hell, and he has a fairly simple blueprint of hell. As Governor of Puerto Rico, greyheaded Rex Tugwell went grayer for the Popular Democratic Party of his friend Muñoz Marin...
Fortnight ago, Rex Tugwell fired the Coalition members of San Juan's civilian-defense board, replaced them with Populares. Saying that civilian defense had bogged down, he put a friend of Muñoz Marin at the head of civilian defense in San Juan and its neighbor cities. Coalitionists retorted that Tugwell had thrown a wrench in the works, said: "He is harder to see than the Pope...
Even if the Coalitionists do succeed in ousting Rex Tugwell from the Governor's chair, he has another to sit in. Before President Roosevelt appointed him Governor, his good friend Muñoz Marin made him Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico (TIME, Aug. 18). The University has never accepted his resignation. As Governor, he draws $10,000 a year; as Chancellor, he would...