Word: rexford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rexford G. Tugwell...
...Chicago. Inspired by his presence and prodded by Communist-line Radio Commentator William Gailmor, a luncheon meeting of "businessmen for Wallace" raised $15,000 for his campaign. That night a capacity crowd of 22,000 filled the Chicago Stadium. They listened to New Dealer Rexford Tugwell vow: "We have a program of our own." They listened to Paul Robeson sing "For the people's march is on." They cheered hysterically as Wallace, looking grey and a little jowly, suddenly materialized in the glaring spotlights. When the plate was passed, they gave $39,000 more for the Wallace campaign...
...legal department of Henry Wallace's AAA. Wallace had to bounce him and some 20 other AAA employees because too many people complained that the group was trying to change the world too fast. Pressman bobbed up again in Harry Hopkins' WPA, then in Rexford Tugwell's Rural Resettlement Administration. In 1936 John Lewis, then playing footie with the leftists in labor, made him counsel of the rebel C.I.O...
...STRICKEN LAND (704 pp.)-Rexford Guy Tugwell-Doubleday...
...little greyer, considerably heavier and hopefully wiser after five years on the job, Rexford Guy Tugwell left the turbulent Puerto Rican governorship last September and retired to the peace & quiet of Chicago. As professor of political science at the University of Chicago he no longer had 2,000,000 citizens in his domain nor a 70 ft. by 30 ft. gubernatorial bedroom at his disposal. But he had time at last to review his Puerto Rican record and his relations with Franklin Roosevelt, who sent him there...