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...killed the goose that laid the golden egg but ate it without offering the ordinary man so much as a bone. The country was on the verge of revolution when along came F.D.R. He didn't know much about economics, but he was nice to liberals such as Rexford Tugwell, who proclaimed that "the future is becoming visible in Russia," and A. A. Berle, who saw "no great difference between having all industry run by a committee of Commissars and by a small group of Directors." Above all, F.D.R. denounced business and was committed to large doses of statism...
Leading lawyers and administrators, including Rexford T. Tugwell, a member of the original FDR "brain trust," Walter H. Blucher, perhaps the most famous living planner in the world, and Arthur E. Sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law, will speak in a newly established lecture series under the sponsorship of the Department of City and Regional Planning...
Hanging the Wash. In the late 19305, Dr. Rexford Tugwell's Resettlement Administration built a model town seven miles northeast of Washington at a cost of $14 million. Because its 900 dwelling units covered a 2OO-acre tract surrounded by 3,100 acres of Maryland countryside, the town was named Greenbelt. Greenbelt's residents, including Abraham Chasanow, set about electing a local government, operating an consumer co-op to run the town's stores, organizing a health insurance plan and a recreation center...
...solemn, bald, big-nosed little (5 ft. 1 in.) man who had no intention at all of being funny. Romany is known at home as a stern judge and a man of enormous dignity and great political courage. Until last week he was chiefly famous for throwing Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell's cabinet in jail for contempt during a court action...
...chief government agency in the drive for production is the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Corp., set up in 1942 under the wartime governorship of Rexford Guy Tugwell. PRIDC, which has spent about $27 million to establish new industries (the new island budget allots $1,700,000 for the corporation), started the ball rolling by setting up five factories to make cement, glass, paper board, shoe-leather products, clay products. Later, it began a hard driving campaign to sell private companies on Puerto Rico as a place for business...