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Under Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell and Assistant to the Secretary Paul Henson Appleby sailed from Manhattan to attend the meetings of the International Agricultural Institute in Rome. Secretary Tugwell locked his cabin door, leaving Secretary Appleby outside to explain: "He is not snooty but there was a lot of last minute work he had to do. . . . Neither the President nor Secretary Wallace had any hand in pushing this trip to Europe. . . . Neither of us has resigned nor is going to be 'kicked out,' at least for anything we have done so far. . . . This trip...
...Tugwell Line. Over a national radio hook-up Undersecretary Rexford Guy Tugwell turned the flammenwerjer of his wrath on those who use Drought as an argument against crop reduction...
...against the hemlock and the chains. . . . My act in so doing will be to me in future years- A rainbow to the storms of life: The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. Thus did the Senate last week debate the fitness of Rexford Guy Tugwell, No. i Braintruster of the Roosevelt Administration, to be Undersecretary of Agriculture. Despite much tall talk of inquisitions, crucifixion and hemlock, little or nothing was said about two practical questions: i) should Dr. Tugwell's salary be boosted from $7,500 as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture...
Thoroughly vexed by the conduct of their colleague, South Carolina's Ellison D. Smith. Senate Democrats last week used legislative force upon him. Leader Robinson proposed to discharge from Senator Smith's Agriculture Committee the nomination of Rexford Guy Tugwell to be Undersecretary of Agriculture. Only then did the Senate win a promise that the promotion of the President's chief braintruster from a $7,500 to a $10,000-a-year job would be reported...
Target Tugwell. Personal target for most of the publishers' hard words and harder feelings was Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell whom President Roosevelt last week stepped up to be Undersecretary of Agriculture as a public exhibit of faith in him (see p. 14). "There seems to be a clearly defined belief on the part of many administration officials," warned Lincoln B. Palmer, general manager of A. N. P. A., "that advertising is a social and economic waste, that it should be included as a marketing cost; that even harmless trade claims should be prohibited; and that all advertisements should...