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When it came to the platform, the Communists moved brusquely and openly. The nominal chairman of the platform committee was silver-haired Rexford Tugwell, onetime Roosevelt brain-truster, who in his earnest innocence thought the convention should go on record in favor of a European recovery plan. But Lawyer Lee Pressman, who was fired from the C.I.O. because of his leftist views, quickly took charge, assisted by the West Coast longshoremen's Harry Bridges...
Married. James McCauley Landis, 48, lantern-jawed onetime dean of the Harvard Law School, Roosevelt brain-truster (chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission), wartime head of the Office of Civilian Defense, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board until last December; and Dorothy Purdy Brown, 39, his ex-secretary; each for the second time; in Potomac...
James M. Landis, 47, leathery CAB chairman, onetime Roosevelt Brain Truster, wartime Civilian Defense chief, was sued for divorce by wife Stella in Salem, Mass., after nearly 21 years. She charged desertion, asked custody of their two daughters...
...Landis, 47, had done a great deal to change CAB's thinking, speed up its machinery. A law student and then a law professor at Harvard, he went to Washington in the early days of the New Deal as one of Felix Frankfurter's "Happy Hotdogs." Brain-Truster Landis helped write the Securities Act of 1933, became SEC chairman in 1935, then dean of Harvard's law school. But Landis was soon back in Washington, where he ran the Office of Civilian Defense...
...week for the fainthearted. Donald R. Richberg, onetime NRA brain-truster, rose in Philadelphia to warn the nation that unless labor was put in its place, the U.S. would be driven "deeper & deeper into a political war which may become a civil war." And Bandleader Art Mooney, pondering what he had seen from the bandstand, reported that wild dancing to hot music was ruining the shapes of American girls. He noted their "piano legs, wide bottoms, thick waists, and hefty bosoms," feared an even uglier future...