Word: rexford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief government agency in the drive for production is the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Corp., set up in 1942 under the wartime governorship of Rexford Guy Tugwell. PRIDC, which has spent about $27 million to establish new industries (the new island budget allots $1,700,000 for the corporation), started the ball rolling by setting up five factories to make cement, glass, paper board, shoe-leather products, clay products. Later, it began a hard driving campaign to sell private companies on Puerto Rico as a place for business...
...years as a U.S. possession, the island has had three military and 15 civil governors, all presidential appointees. Rexford G. Tugwell was the last mainlander to hold the job, Jesús T. Piñero (1946-48) the first native-born governor...
Before plunging into the Deep South, Henry Wallace had given some deep thought to the Communists in his party. He was worried about Rexford Tugwell's threatened defection (TIME, Aug. 30). After four days of consultation with his advisers, he concocted a statement which he hoped would pacify Tugwell without offending his Communist supporters. It was a masterpiece of artless dodging...
Once a fiery advocate of Puerto Rican independence, Munoz now believes that both independence and statehood are best forgotten while the island builds up its economic health. His platform: industrialization, expansion of the social legislation which he wrote in the days before Governor Rexford G. Tugwell* arrived, a new Pureto Rican constitution by revision or replacement of the present Organic Act-to provide that no changes shall be made in Puerto Rico's governmental system without consulting the islanders...
When it came to the platform, the Communists moved brusquely and openly. The nominal chairman of the platform committee was silver-haired Rexford Tugwell, onetime Roosevelt brain-truster, who in his earnest innocence thought the convention should go on record in favor of a European recovery plan. But Lawyer Lee Pressman, who was fired from the C.I.O. because of his leftist views, quickly took charge, assisted by the West Coast longshoremen's Harry Bridges...