Word: rexford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When handsome, tough-minded Rexford Guy Tugwell was a working member of the first Brain Trust, he made one mistake fatal to a politico. He talked out loud about unfamiliar and unpleasant things. His thesis: that the world and the U. S. were drifting away from laissez-faire, should make haste toward planned economy. So, after the 1936 election, Brain Truster Tugwell resigned from the New Deal...
...about Third Term, for instance). But he is not isolated. Around him, on the pedestal where Presidents must live, are men on whom he relies. In seven years the make up of that group has changed several times. In 1933 it centred on Raymond Moley, in 1935 Rexford Guy Tugwell was one of its leading figures, and Corcoran and Cohen were in the ascendant. As the President sets out on his Third Term odyssey, the complexion of the group has changed again...
Headed by James Farley, John M.D. Hamilton, Rexford Tugwell, and Marriner Eccles over 200 government officials, leaders in public affairs and visiting scholars took part in the eleven seminars offered by the school...