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...Brain-Truster Tugwell, tarnished glamor boy of the New Deal, had a chance in Puerto Rico to make a political comeback. Thanks largely to the good offices of bearish, sad-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin, President of Puerto Rico's Senate, he seemed to be making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Rex in Puerto Rico | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...threw him into the brier patch of Civilian Defense. The fierce-looking rabbit: hawk-faced, hawk-eyed James McCauley ("Chink") Landis, Dean of Harvard Law School. A precocious Princetonian and one of the keenest legal eaglets ever to swoop from Harvard Law School, Dean Landis was an early Brain Truster, as SEC chairman presided over a whipped Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Landis to OCD | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Iowa's ex-Congressman Edward Clayton Eicher got a new job last week. Its imposing title: chairman of SEC. Its actual duties: to keep the chair just vacated by Jerome Frank warm for Brain-truster Ben Cohen, who is now in England assisting with Lend-Lease Act administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: SEC Seat Warming | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Although he left for Europe considerably before Winant, President Conant arrived at Lisbon at the same time; Conant traveled to Portugal by beat, whereas Winant flew by clipper. Both men, together with Benjamin Cohon, New Deal brain-truster, flew to Bristol, England, on Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant, Winant Are Greeted By King on Arrival in England | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...Suave, powerful Emilio Fortes Gil, Provisional President of Mexico after the assassination of Obregon. As No. 1 brawn-truster to Avila Camacho, Gil probably knows as much about Mexican politics as any other living man, will thus be indispensable to the syndicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Strange Bedfellows | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

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