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Then, as though suddenly abashed, donor Hayden took refuge aboard the Rex, sailed on a ten-week trip to Africa to have a look at British copper mines including financially sensational Roan Antelope...
...chief thumper for the Brown Derby among dirt farmers. After the Hoover landslide they cooled their enthusiasm by starting a company to make things out of cornstalks. Unlike George Peek, Administrator Davis is thoroughly in sympathy with the A.A.A.'s production control program, is .acceptable to Socialistic Professor Rex Tugwell...
Meanwhile Mr. Wallace, with Mr. Tugwell standing at his elbow, told the Press that the objectives of the AAA were "a better balanced income in order to give the farmers a fair share without doing injustice to the consumer. I think George and Rex see absolutely eye to eye on these objectives." Meanwhile, also, Braintrusters were intimating to the Press "off the record" that Mr. Peek had messed up the AAA. Mr. Peek was reported to have told friends that: 1) either he or Mr. Frank would have to go; 2) he would be ready to appear at any time...
...There is friction in every administration. But friction in the Roosevelt Administration is apt to be peculiarly significant because most of it comes from basic differences between those who are quite definitely not Socialists and those who, for most practical purposes, are. The near-Socialists are led by handsome Rex Tugwell who wants honest labeling written into the food codes and has for the same purpose drafted a food & drugs bill which last week was misbranded in Congressional hearings as the "Copeland Bill." Their strategy is to get as much done as possible under the guise of "Liberalism," to avoid...
Director Vidal's two closest competitors became his first aides. Big-framed Major J. Carroll Cone, in charge of air regulation, was a War Pilot, a onetime manufacturer of planes. Rex Martin, directing air navigation, has beetling black Groucho Marx eyebrows and a Mexican bandit mustache, slightly askew, which disguise a gentle, genial manner. His appearance last week was even more arresting because of a towering metal-&-leather collar which holds together a neck broken in a crash last September near Washington. Director Vidal was in the plane before it took off, decided...