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...world knows by now the top men in President Roosevelt's Brain Trust -George F. Warren, James Harvey Rogers, Rexford Guy Tugwell, Mordecai Ezekiel, John Dickinson, Francis B. Sayre, Willard L. Thorp, Isador Lubin, Milburn L. Wilson, William I. Myers. Below this top layer of the Brain Trust, however, are scores & scores of young unknowns in almost every department of the Government. Underlings on the payroll who rarely if ever see their President, they do most of the New Deal spade work for which their superiors in the spotlight get the credit. Some are assistant professors with new economic...
...Miami Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, accompanied by Braintruster Rexford Guy Tugwell and a bevy of female newshawks, boarded Pan-American Airways' 44-passenger American Clipper and flew away to the Caribbean Islands. At San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, alighting in a fresh white suit, she was carried off by President Trujillo in his automobile bearing a large brass plaque "Primera Dama de la Republica!" to a palm-thatched pavilion where the President and Foreign Minister Arturo Lograno entertained her elegantly. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, she hugged Mrs. James Bourne, wife of the Relief Administrator. At St. Thomas...
...Columbia University, that yeasty pot of progressive ideas, President Roosevelt dipped such potent Brain Trusters as Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (see p. 55), Abraham S. Hewitt, Leo Wolman, Blackwell Smith. But Columbia was still left with a good supply of bright young professors who were disgruntled with the old order, passionately dedicated to the new. Last week many of them moved in a body to Cleveland, where the Progressive Education Association and the National Education Association's Department of Superintendence were convening. There they planted in the educational world the same kind of ideas which...
Biggest news of the conventions was reserved for the last day of the American Economic Association meeting when Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, took the rostrum, propounded a doctrine which was neither hard nor soft, liberal nor conservative, but from the standpoint of economics bright red. Said he: "We have depended too long on the hope that private ownership and control would operate somehow for the benefit of society as a whole. That hope has not been realized. . . . Private control has failed to use wisely its control of the land...
...believe in an apprenticeship education in economics, as well as in other subjects," said Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and present leader of the "brain trust," in an interview with the CRIMSON recently. Among several Harvard economic instructors, it is openly rumored that efforts are being made to induce Tugwell to accept a position on the Harvard faculty in the near future. Similar rumors exist at Washington...