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...James McCauley Landis was succeeded as chairman of the SEC by (1 Ferdinand Pecora, 2 Rexford G. Tugwell, 3 William O. Douglas, 4 Robert H. Jackson, 5 Joseph P. Kennedy...
Deal satellites, onetime braintruster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr.. President Charles Taussig of American Molasses Co. of New York (present employer of Rexford Guy Tugwell) and Philip Murray, able chairman of C.I.O.'s Steel Workers Organizing...
First New Deal documentary film was last year's The Plow that Broke the Plains. Like The Plow, The River was conceived and produced by Cinemacritic Pare Lorentz (McCall's, Vanity Fair), who had sold both ideas to Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell before Tugwell left the Brain Trust for the molasses business. Sponsor of the finished film is the Farm Security Administration, successor to the Resettlement Administration in the Department of Agriculture...
...textbook publishers is not greedy politicians or cutthroat competition, but censorship. Religious, racial, political, economic groups keep an eagle eye on schoolbooks, are quick to howl at what they consider irregularities. After Gary's School Superintendent William Wirt in 1934 charged that New Deal Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell was a revolutionary plotter, Oak Park, Ill. and Kansas City dropped like a hot potato a book of which Professor Tugwell was coauthor, Our Economic Society and Its Problems, and its sales have fallen off one-third, according to Harcourt, Brace, its publishers. There are fighting words, especially...
Last week, about three weeks after Rexford Tugwell's Resettlement Administration was liquidated by the Department of Agriculture, the N. E. C., long recognized as no flower but a cumbersome New Deal weed, was uprooted by an executive order of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Except for its Press Intelligence service, which may continue under another bureau, its personnel of 251 will cease functioning December...