Word: rexford
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Puerto Rico had managed to achieve both of its objectives--political autonomy and economic unity--while giving up nothing for either of them. How did this come about? Rexford G. Tugwell, the last of the regularly appointed governors of the island, calls it "The Grand Conception of Munoz Marin." Munoz had the challenging task of rallying a people split widely between the two views of statehood and complete independence, and then convincing the U.S. Congress that his solution was the correct...
...individual missionaries, but our needs require us to be group missionaries," the Dean commented. Rexford J. Moon, Jr., director of the College Scholarship Service, has pointed out that 150,000 capable students from low-income families never attend college...
...Arriba Nixon!" Only 15 years ago a Democratic Senate committee investigated Puerto Rico and pronounced its problems "unsolvable." Only twelve years ago Puerto Rico's retiring New Dealing Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell chose The Stricken Land as the title for his book about the island. Today Puerto Rico: CJ Boasts a per capita income of $443 (v. $742 for West Germany, $2,009 for the U.S.), which is surpassed in Latin America only by oil-rich Venezuela. ¶ Costs the U.S. Treasury next to nothing. ¶ Governs itself in orderly democracy within an imaginative new "Commonwealth" relationship to Washington...
...Rexford G. Tugwell, a member of president Roosevelt's celebrated Brain Trust from 1933 to 1936, yesterday cited President Eisenhower's request earlier in the year for Congressional approval to intervene in the Middle East as an example of executive failure to assume power during national crisis...
...killed the goose that laid the golden egg but ate it without offering the ordinary man so much as a bone. The country was on the verge of revolution when along came F.D.R. He didn't know much about economics, but he was nice to liberals such as Rexford Tugwell, who proclaimed that "the future is becoming visible in Russia," and A. A. Berle, who saw "no great difference between having all industry run by a committee of Commissars and by a small group of Directors." Above all, F.D.R. denounced business and was committed to large doses of statism...