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  Rexford Tugwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tugwell subsequently served in FDR's administration for four years and was one of the chief intellectual contributors to his New Deal.
Tugwell was born in Sinclairsville, New York and studied at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce.
Tugwell was appointed Governor of Puerto Rico from 1942 to 1946.
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 Implications of an Historical Debate for a Renewal of National Planning Institutions: Roosevelt and Tugwell in the New ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tugwell hoped the agriculture program would be an opportunity to implement his idea of the government as senior partner with the private sector in cooperative planning.
Tugwell placed blame for the weak codes and their catering to the private interests of industry on Hugh Johnson, and he fought against him with all the resources he could muster, as he had against Peek in the AAA.
Tugwell was alone in pursuit of the NRA as an instrument of industrial restructuring, and he had powerful opponents.
www.asu.edu /caed/proceedings01/HEMMENS/hemmens.htm   (7078 words)

  
 Prince George's County Memorial Library System - Tugwell Room Collection
Tugwell’s father was a farmer and a cannery owner.
Tugwell attended the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees.
Tugwell is connected to Greenbelt, MD through his instrumental work in with the Greenbelt Towns program.
www.prge.lib.md.us /SpColl/Tugwell/RexfordTugwell.html   (230 words)

  
 Rexford Guy Tugwell Biography / Biography of Rexford Guy Tugwell Biography
Rexford Guy Tugwell (1891-1979) made numerous contributions to American intellectual and public life, including service in the Department of Agriculture under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and as governor of Puerto Rico.
Rexford Guy Tugwell was born in Sinclairsville in western New York on July 10, 1891, the only surviving son of Charles H. Tugwell, then a moderately prosperous businessman and farmer, and Dessie Rexford Tugwell.
Raised in the Congregationalist tradition, Tugwell was able to participate in most of the outdoor activities available to a small town youth in turn-of-the-century America despite periodic attacks of allergies and asthma.
www.bookrags.com /biography-rexford-guy-tugwell   (242 words)

  
 Rexford G. Tugwell
Born in upstate New York in 1891, Rexford G. Tugwell would perform a variety of functions for FDR from 1932 until the president's death in 1945.
During this time, Tugwell had a hand in crafting the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act, and then under the auspices of the Resettlement Administration began work on the greenbelt communities—a quasi-utopian urban development project that sought to construct new self-sufficient cities from the ground up.
Although Tugwell and Eleanor Roosevelt clearly enjoyed each other's company and shared a mutual respect, their relationship was complicated by the first lady's special relationship with Arthurdale residents and her frequent attempts to intercede with Tugwell on their behalf.
www.nps.gov /elro/glossary/tugwell-rexford.htm   (348 words)

  
 FDR -- The Man, the Leader, the Legacy, Part 11
Tugwell was a follower of the school of thought known as Institutional Economics, founded by the eccentric writer on economics, Thorstein Veblen.
Tugwell was another of the progressive thinkers enamored of the experiment in war-socialism under Wilson, especially of Bernard Baruch’s War Industries Board (WIB).
Among Tugwell’s mentors was the icon of progressivism, John Dewey, famed educator, social philosopher, and insufferable windbag.
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 LTC 156
Tugwell and Wilson linked their vision of change to the "lower-third"; they did not isolate a poor underclass separate from the rest of society.
Tugwell’s thought is more familiar: He was a proponent of centralized planning and governmental coordination of the economy.
10 Rexford Tugwell, who served as Governor of Puerto Rico and harbored hopes of using the island as a laboratory for scientifically informed reform, was one of the more prominent “exportations” of social scientific expertise to “underdeveloped” areas of the world (Lapp 1995).
www.ies.wisc.edu /ltc/ltc156.html   (6176 words)

  
 Tugwell, Rexford Guy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Tugwell was Assistant Secretary (1933) and Under Secretary (1934–37) of Agriculture, and as a member of the Brain Trust he helped draw up the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
He was appointed (1938) chairman of the New York City planning commission and later (1941) governor of Puerto Rico.
After 1966, Tugwell was a senior fellow of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.
www.bartleby.com /65/tu/Tugwell.html   (179 words)

  
 U.S. Backs UN Plan to Control Land- Sierra Times.com
Tugwell said present acreage reductions plans were only an emergency stop gap.
As an alternative, Tugwell advocated controlling the total volume of farm products by limiting the area available for production, the government acquiring and devoting to other uses all land in excess of that needed for production.
Rexford G. Tugwell, longtime propagandist for international banking interests, authored THE NEWSTATES CONSTITUTION which seeks to "legalize" federal regionalism, reduce Americans to the status of economic serfs on the land which once was theirs, and erect a dictatorship of the financial elite upon the ruins of the Republic.
sierratimes.com /archive/files/jun/19/arun061901.htm   (675 words)

  
 Rexford Place: Lanham, Maryland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Though situated in Lanham, Prince George’s County, Rexford Place lies closer to Greenbelt, a town that claims to be the first community in the United States built as a federal venture in housing.
It was a planned city built under the direction of Rexford Guy Tugwell – then head of the US Resettlement Administration and a friend and advisor to Franklin Roosevelt.
Rexford Place boasts of 92 individual apartments, 18 set-aside for individuals with memory impairments.
www.harborhillplace.com /rexford_overview.html   (187 words)

  
 Rexford Tugwell
Tugwell studied at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce where he was greatly influenced by two of his tutors, Scott Nearing and Simon Patten.
In 1946 Tugwell returned to teaching and worked at the University of Chicago (1946-57) and the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Santa Barbara (1957-1964).
Rexford Tugwell was an assistant secretary in the Agricultural Department in 1933.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USARtugwell.htm   (786 words)

  
 The Medical Messiahs: Chapter 8
Tugwell had raised a point about a letter prepared for his signature in Campbell's office, and the Chief felt a personal explanation was in order.
A St. Louis editor wrote Tugwell that opponents of the bill had generated the hottest "beat" he had felt in a quarter of a century." [11] It is hard to say how much of a club this proved to be in the thirties.
Tugwell, in first broaching the subject of a new law to Franklin Roosevelt, had reminded the President that the first law had been enacted during Theodore Roosevelt's administration, and the second Roosevelt had not been indifferent to the continuing attempt to secure revision.
www.quackwatch.org /13Hx/MM/08.html   (10191 words)

  
 Prince George's County Memorial Library System - Tugwell Room Collection
The hours of operation for the Tugwell Special Collection are the same as the Greenbelt Branch hours.
The Tugwell Special Collection is a reference collection, and the materials must be used within the Greenbelt branch.
A special loan of Tugwell material may be authorized by the Tugwell Special Collection curator, or the Branch Manager.
www.pgcmls.info /SpColl/Tugwell/Tugwell.html   (282 words)

  
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The project is to be a comparative analysis of Owen's ideas and those of the American economist Rexford G. Tugwell.
Tugwell, among other distinctions, conceived and delivered the Greenbelt Town movement, a plan to resettle Americans in need of economic assistance on land in agricultural towns to be established near industrial cities.
Rexford Tugwell, "The Meaning of the Greenbelt Towns," New Republic 90 (February 17, 1937).
www.business.auburn.edu /~whittdo/OWEN-TUG.000.htm   (452 words)

  
 About   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Born on June 10, 1891, Rexford G. Tugwell grew up in Sinclairville and Wilson, NY.
In 1936, Tugwell left the federal government, and continued working in city planning, government, and teaching.
He returned to Maryland to live briefly in Greenbelt during the late 1950s, while doing research at the Library of Congress.
tugwell.prge.lib.md.us /__About_Tugwell/__about_tugwell.html   (334 words)

  
 Puerto Rican public papers of R. G. Tugwell, Governor.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Here is an invaluable collection of the public papers of Rexford Guy Tugwell who served as the last American governor of Puerto Rico from 1941-1946.
It includes his inaugural address of September 19, 1941, and his regular and special messages to the Puerto Rican legislature (e.g., "Report on the Five Hundred-Acre Law," and "Statement to the Chavez Sub-Committee of the Senate Committee of Territories and Insular Affairs").
Tugwell's papers provide a basic reference source which allows a fuller understanding of Tugwell's The Stricken Land: The Story of Puerto Rico
www.ayerpub.com /Product.asp?ProductID=4400000017136   (105 words)

  
 Designs Within Disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Economists, and the Shaping of American Economic Policy, 1933-1945
What Adolf Berle, Rexford Tugwell, and Raymond Moley had in common besides "geographical proximity" was their commitment to using the federal government to address the economic crisis caused by the Great Depression.
Providing rather traditional and highly questionable critiques of what Berle and Tugwell particularly were saying, Barber makes it clear that these individuals were anti-Brandesians in their approach and thinking.
This is particularly true in his characterization of New Dealers such as Rexford Tugwell.
www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0024.shtml   (1284 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Rexford Tugwell, Brain Trust Head, Declares Teaching by Lectures Futile
Rexford Tugwell, Brain Trust Head, Declares Teaching by Lectures Futile
"I believe in an apprenticeship education in economics, as well as in other subjects," said Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and present leader of the "brain trust," in an interview with the CRIMSON recently.
Among several Harvard economic instructors, it is openly rumored that efforts are being made to induce Tugwell to accept a position on the Harvard faculty in the near future.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=190828   (429 words)

  
 Greenwood Publishing Group : The Diary of Rexford G. Tugwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tugwell's diary of the New Deal era is one of the most important first-hand accounts of the New Deal available.
One of FDR's most intimate advisors, Tugwell provides an open account of what went on in the New Deal, particularly in the early days when programs to address the Great Depression were being devised.
MICHAEL VINCENT NAMORATO is Associate Professor of History at the University of Mississippi.
www.greenwood.com /books/BookDetail_pf.asp?sku=NDY/&location=international   (222 words)

  
 Tugwell: Government Will Control All Land
Use of all land, public and private will be controlled by the federal government in the future, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Tugwell predicted this week.
That hope has not been realize." Tugwell said present acreage reductions plans were only an emergency stop gap.
He envisioned "a commercial agriculture made up of the most efficient farmers operating the best of our lands." Contrary to the desired trend 2,000,000 persons have returned to farms during the depression, he said.
www.sweetliberty.org /tugwell.htm   (926 words)

  
 An Open Letter to Rex Tugwell
The Rural Resettlement Division of the Resettlement Administration of which Rexford Tugwell is administrator, is engaged in rehabilitating some 290,000 farm families taken from the relief rolls in the spring and summer of 1934.
The Resettlement administration makes small loans directly to the "rehabilitant" who purchases his goods, however, according to a budget made for him by the local representative The following letter, which we urge upon the attention of Mr.
Tugwell, relates the experience of one of these families in Alabama.
newdeal.feri.org /nation/na36106.htm   (861 words)

  
 The Photographers: Roy Stryker
After graduating in 1924, he remained to teach the subject at the invitation of his mentor, Rexford Tugwell.
Little did anyone know then that Roy Stryker would go on to produce a photographic record of the United States undergoing a period of profound change, which would lead the nation from a rural culture into an urban, technological one.
As a member of Franklin Roosevelt's Brains Trust, Rexford Tugwell organized the Resettlement Administration to address the mounting economic problems faced by people living in America's heartland.
www.clpgh.org /exhibit/photog14.html   (1336 words)

  
 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Tugwell, Rexford Guy @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
TUGWELL, REXFORD GUY [Tugwell, Rexford Guy] 1891-1979, American economist and political scientist, b.
Under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Tugwell was Assistant Secretary (1933) and Under Secretary (1934-37) of Agriculture, and as a member of the Brain Trust he helped draw up the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
Our archive contains millions of documents from thousands of sources and goes back over 23 years.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Tugwell&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (200 words)

  
 References for Rexford G. Tugwell
Tugwell, Rexford G. The Economic Basis of Public Interest.
Tugwell, Rexford G. The Industrial Discipline and the Governmental Arts.
Tugwell, Rexford G., Thomas Munro, and Roy E. Stryker.
www.nal.usda.gov /speccoll/collect/history/tugref.htm   (262 words)

  
 U.S. backs U.N. plan to control land
The U.S. delegation, headed by Carla Hill, then-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, endorsed virtually every resolution in the new policy, as did every Communist nation.
Tugwell’s prediction is now complete; the federal government either owns, or has the regulatory power to control, virtually every square inch of land in the United States.
Ironically, the same year this policy was announced, Jesse Hardy bought 160 acres near Naples, Florida, to build his American dream.
www.citizenreviewonline.org /april2004/control_plan.htm   (882 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Rexford Guy Tugwell (Economics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Rexford Guy Tugwell 1891–1979, American economist and political scientist, b.
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 Tugwell, Rexford Guy - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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Tugwell, Rexford Guy, 1891-1979, American economist and political scientist, b.
Under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Tugwell was Assistant Secretary (1933) and Under Secretary (1934-37) of Agriculture, and as a member of the Brain Trust
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 Joseph Dorfman Papers 1890-1983.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, documents, book typescripts, photographs, and printed materials covering the time from Dorfman's early interest, as a graduate student, in the economic thought of Thorstein Veblen until his retirement.
There are manuscript and typescript notes for articles on John Bates Clark, Wesley C. Mitchell, Edwin R. Seligman, and Rexford G. Tugwell, as well as lectures and articles by these professors.
There are Dorfman's own lectures, lecture notes, reading lists, and other course materials, drafts for articles, as well as notes and related papers for many conferences on economics.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/collections/html/4079523.html   (176 words)

  
 Brain Trust --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
Group of advisers to Franklin Roosevelt in his 1932 presidential campaign.
Its principal members were the Columbia University professors Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell, and Adolf A. Berle, Jr.
They presented Roosevelt with analyses of national social and economic problems and helped him devise public-policy solutions.
concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9357921?tocId=9357921   (775 words)

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