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...play," announced Rural Electrification Administrator Morris Llewellyn Cooke last week. The quarterback was again Franklin Roosevelt, and he had just called a new play by appointing Administrator Cooke to be chairman of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee of six, including Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins and Resettlement Administrator Rexford G. Tugwell. What play the President would call next for the drought areas depended last week on what this little brain trust hatched out before his trip to the West this month...
...citizens knelt to the tolling of bells in the town's 13 churches one morning last week, devoutly prayed for rain, got none. Instead Dakotans were promised this week a visit from a scouting party of top-flight New Dealers headed by Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell and Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams. Farmers in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa predicted a 50% loss unless rain came within a week. Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri reported that, rain or no rain, they would be lucky to harvest half their normal crop. At week's end, estimated cost of the drought...
...Friend. The courage and vitality which often attracts a scholar to a man of action recently brought Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell and John L. Lewis together. Professor Tugwell had heard of Lewis' plans regarding Steel, wanted to give him "some economic advice." There was a dinner in Alexandria. Shortly thereafter Harvard's Lee Pressman, the Resettlement Administration's General Counsel, was serving the Steel Organization Committee in a similar capacity. Furthermore, when sharecroppers' organizers following their arrest recently could not raise bail in Memphis, it was the U.M.W. which arranged their freedom for them from...
Braintruster Rexford Guy Tugwell spent half an hour skipping stones at Edenton, N. C., remarked: "If a fellow could do this every day, he could soon forget Frank Kent and Dave Lawrence...
History. Government departments, notably that of Agriculture, have made many a dull, amateurish film to be shown to school children. To Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell's Resettlement Administration nearly a year ago went Cinema Critic Pare Lorentz (Judge, McCall's) with an idea: Let the U. S. Government, heretofore backward in using the cinema, make a really good picture of the history of the Great Plains, showing how part of it became a dread "Dust Bowl" and how the Resettlement Administration was trying to rehabilitate its farmers. Critic Lorentz sold his idea, was at once chosen to direct...