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...great annual economic camp meeting the public for the first time recognized perhaps half a dozen names of notable economists among a list which included (besides Colonel Ayres) Edwin W. Kemmerer, Irving Fisher, George F. Warren, Oliver M. W. Sprague, James Harvey Rogers, Mordecai J. B. Ezekiel, Rexford Guy Tugwell...
...advisory committee on Fine Arts. In Washington last week a meeting of that committee was held at Artist Bruce's home. On hand in addition to Messrs. Robert and Bruce were Art Critic Forbes Watson as technical director, President Roosevelt's Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, Braintruster Rexford Tugwell, CWAdministrator Harry L. Hopkins. The Com mittee was given $3.000.000 to provide work for 2.500 artists decorating public buildings at the flat rate of $35 per week. It was announced that not only strictly Federal buildings would be decorated by CWArtists but also any or all buildings into which Federal...
...President gave the better part of a day to interviews with George Peek, Henry Wallace, Rexford Tugwell over dissensions in the Agricultural Recovery program...
...markets. He had opposed unduly rigid restrictions on packers and their profits. He had put through the "unsatisfactory" milk marketing agreements. To Mr. Peek the Secretary's remarks were a slap in the face, and though Mr. Wallace delivered the slap, the author of the slap was Braintruster Rexford G. Tugwell...
...writer was the Society of Newspaper Editors' second vice president, Managing Editor Marvin H. Creager of the Milwaukee Journal. What irritated him most was not Washington from the back stairs but Washington from the official front steps: "Another member of President Roosevelt's 'brain trust' [Rexford Guy Tugwell] has entered the journalistic field and is offering, through a syndicate, to inform and instruct the public on governmental matters at so much per article. . . . But what can he say? Certainly nothing that would in any way embarrass the Administration. His colleagues' articles in the Press have...