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...hand in pushing this trip to Europe. . . . Neither of us has resigned nor is going to be 'kicked out,' at least for anything we have done so far. . . . This trip is not New Deal stuff, it is in the interests of scientific agriculture." For Brain Truster Tugwell's furtive departure President Roosevelt at Hyde Park had a different explanation: process servers were looking for him in a suit filed against the Department of Agriculture...
This opportunity is available every year for one course in the School through the generosity of the late George H. Leatherbee who left a bequest for that purpose in 1913. This year the series of lectures by the ex-"brain-truster" has been received with such enthusiasm that it will be nearly six times as large as usual...
...morning last week Professor James Harvey Rogers of Yale reached Singapore in the course of a world junket. Four months ago President Roosevelt sent this snaggle-toothed Brain Truster out to gather all possible facts about silver in the Orient. Professor Rogers had talked long and solemnly with Chinese bankers in Shanghai, Canton, Hongkong, had toured the Yangtze Valley, had written meaty reports back to the U. S. Treasury...
Riffling through the papers in his hotel-room, General Johnson snorted with disgust when his eye fell upon a cartoon by Carey Orr on the Tribune's front page. It depicted a huge Brain Truster brandishing over a minute mother and two children the bludgeon of NRA PROHIBITIONS (see cut). Caption: "New York:?Mrs. Katherine Budd, a mother with two children to support, was informed that President Roosevelt had turned down her plea for permission to work in her home making artificial flowers because 'THE PURPOSES OF THE NRA CODE WOULD BE DEFEATED...
...more chagrined when Congress, after upping the quota of mainland beet-sugar producers 100,000 tons above the President's request, left the quota for Hawaii to be fixed by Undersecretary of Agriculture Tugwell. In proportioning quotas between Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Philippines, Brain Truster Tugwell used the average crops of 1931-32-33 as figures for the other islands, but based Hawaii's quota on the years 1930-31-32, to Hawaii's disadvantage. Result: Hawaii's quota was set at 917,000 tons instead of at least 975,000 which she felt...