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...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...
Though the Roosevelt-Wallace farm philosophies meshed, in 1932 Franklin Roosevelt did not get the ideas in question direct from Philosopher Wallace. Candidate Roosevelt took advice on the farm problem from others who shared the Wallace idea that farmers needed something more than price rigging. Among them was Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell of Columbia University, who in 1928 had tried to sell Al Smith a farm program which that salty sidewalk philosopher somehow couldn't swallow. Among them was red-faced, downright George Peek, who had grown interested in export subsidies while he and his partner Hugh Johnson were...
...Married. Rexford Guy Tugwell, 47, most handsome original Brain Truster, now chairman of New York City's Planning Commission;* and his onetime assistant, Grace Falke, 30, director of National Youth's art projects; by Mayor LaGuardia; in Manhattan. Mr. Tugwell's first wife, Florence, mother of his two grown daughters, divorced him three months...
Divorced. Rexford Guy Tugwell, original Brain Truster, now chairman of New York's City Planning Commission; by Florence Arnold Tugwell; in Yerington, Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty. Meanwhile, the Tugwells' older daughter, Tanis, 21, denied she was engaged to 22-year-old Sevier ("Stub"') Whatley, son of a one-time Tennessee coal miner, who took out a license to marry...