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...When Rexford Guy Tugwell was a youth of 24, he wrote these Whitmanesque lines in a windy piece of free verse. America paid little attention. At Columbia University the regents sometimes seemed to resent Professor Tugwell's attempts to remake that small corner of the U.S. But he won the admiration of his next-door neighbor, Professor Raymond Moley, and packed off to Washington with him in 1933, to become one of Franklin Roosevelt's first brain-trusters. Disfavor, as it must to all favorites, came to blunt Rex Tugwell; he was shipped off to Puerto Rico, where...
...Puerto Rico's Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell, once (1938) chairman of the New York City Planning Commission. Tugwell specializes in "the kind of watercolor planning which consists of splashing green paint at a map and labeling the resulting blobs as 'open areas,' 'green belts,' 'breathing spaces...
...real contribution to the thousands of English-reading people in Latin America," says Jefferson Caffery, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. "An indispensable link with the world beyond the horizon. It is impossible for one who does not live here to appreciate its importance" writes Puerto Rico's Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell. And Venezuelan Ambassador Diogenes Escalante calls TIME "the most efficient help to the cause of mutual understanding between the peoples of this continent...
...Leisure Class, will recall to the initiated that Thorstein Veblen was the mental sire of many a U.S. intellectual who grew up to be a technocrat. The initiated will remember, too, that Veblen has been praised and damned as the prophet of the New Deal. His influence on Rexford Guy Tugwell, George Soule, Stuart Chase and other New Deal economists has been profound. Anti-New Dealer Edgar M. Queeny (The Spirit of Enterprise), president of the Monsanto Chemical Co., has even gone so far as to make Veblen the source of practically all that is evil in modern America...
Poverty-struck and overpopulated Puerto Rico, stepchild among U.S. territories, was chosen as the first backyard for experimental freedom. Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell proposed that Puerto Ricans be given the right to elect their own governor. Franklin Roosevelt quickly stepped up to announce that he liked the idea. If Congress changes the Organic Act of 1917, self-government will go into effect in Puerto Rico in 1944 or as soon thereafter as the war ends...